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  • Anesthesiology
  • Healthcare Operations
  • Performance Measurement

Background:

  • Operating room (OR) suites commonly use performance dashboards for efficiency, but non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) sites face unique challenges.
  • Existing productivity frameworks inadequately guide improvements in NORA operational efficiency.
  • Performance frontiers, effective for ORs, have not been applied to NORA settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply performance frontiers to assess NORA site efficiency.
  • To identify potential operational strategies for improving NORA delivery.
  • To evaluate the variability in NORA site performance.

Main Methods:

  • Anesthesia billing records from a primary hospital (April 2022–March 2023) were analyzed.
  • Cases from OR and NORA locations were included, excluding those with irregular volume or financial arrangements.
  • Under-utilized and over-utilized minutes were calculated, and data were plotted as rolling 4-week sums normalized to scheduled NORA block time (7 AM–5 PM on non-holiday weekdays).
  • Performance frontiers were developed and plotted to visualize efficiency.

Main Results:

  • Over 246 weekdays, 42,424 cases were analyzed, with 20,003 (47.2%) NORA cases and 22,421 (52.8%) OR cases.
  • Performance frontiers demonstrated significant efficiency variability across NORA sites.
  • Nonparametric tests confirmed statistical significance and non-equivalence in performance.

Conclusions:

  • Performance frontiers highlight substantial efficiency variability in NORA sites, necessitating targeted interventions.
  • Some NORA sites achieve OR efficiency levels, while others lag, especially those with high variability and urgency.
  • Efficient sites can optimize resource allocation using performance frontiers; inefficient sites may benefit from shared resource pools.