Perioperative Services Efficiency: Improving Patient Throughput
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2012
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The primary issue is that perioperative delays are resulting in 22.3% worked hours in overtime and decreased patient, staff and physician satisfaction. This department is looking to increase surgical volume and needs to strengthen their ability to improve current workflows and respond to future growing demand. The primary countermeasure to this issue is to focus on room turnover delays. OR turnover times are exceeding the Health System target by 5 minutes per turnover (totaling 3 hours of potential value added time per day), 67% of the time. This is a significant contributor to the over perioperative delays.