Leveraging Real-world Data to Increase Procedure Room Capacity: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Project.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the current healthcare climate, the financial strain created by COVID-19, limited resources, and case backlogs highlight the need to optimize operating and procedure room efficiency and maximize capacity. At Seattle Children's, a clinical multidisciplinary team developed and implemented a data-driven protocol to improve efficiency in a high-volume gastrointestinal (GI) suite.

Methods

Key process measures, including all case on-time starts and postanesthesia care unit length of stay, were extracted from the electronic medical record and presented as Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts. Clinicians' performance was stratified by rational subgrouping to better understand variation in the system. We defined an expert clinician as one who performs beyond 3-sig

SUBMITTER: Feldman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10997288 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature