Measuring and enhancing elective service performance in NHS operating theatres: an overview.

Journal article

• The use of overall theatre utilization rates may be misleading when trying to identify underlying operating session inefficiencies • Future, more accurate, measures of efficiency will need to incorporate case-mix adjusted operative output • The optimization of theatre productivity includes methods such as: • Surgeon-specific list volumes • Managing patient flows • Maximizing ambulatory surgery provision • Ring-fencing surgical in-patient elective service provision.

Authors: Mayer, E; Faiz, O; Athanasiou, T; Vincent, C

• Journal: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 273-277
• Publication date: 2008-06-01
• DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.080130
• EISSN: 1758-1095
• ISSN: 0141-0768
• Language: English
• Keywords: Delivery of Health Care; Operating Rooms; Great Britain; State Medicine; Humans