Impact of COVID-19 pandemic-induced surgical restrictions on operational performance: a case study at the University Hospital of Ulm.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The operating room (OR) is a high-cost and high-revenue area in a hospital comprising extremely complex process steps to treat patients. The perioperative process quality can be optimized through an efficiency-oriented central OR management based on performance indices. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic with the corresponding OR restrictions, there was a significant nation- and worldwide decline in the performance, which may have a lasting impact. Therefore, we proposed the hypothesis that COVID-19 pandemic-related OR restrictions could reduce operative performance in the long term.

Methods

A retrospective, descriptive analysis of perioperative processing times was conducted exemplarily at the University Hospital Ulm using a pre-post design, examining the co

SUBMITTER: Datzmann T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11599351 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature