Operating Room Performance Optimization Metrics: a Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Literature proposes numerous initiatives for optimization of the Operating Room (OR). Despite multiple suggested strategies for the optimization of workflow on the OR, its patients and (medical) staff, no uniform description of 'optimization' has been adopted. This makes it difficult to evaluate the proposed optimization strategies. In particular, the metrics used to quantify OR performance are diverse so that assessing the impact of suggested approaches is complex or even impossible. To secure a higher implementation success rate of optimisation strategies in practice we believe OR optimisation and its quantification should be further investigated. We aim to provide an inventory of the metrics and methods used to optimise the OR by the means of a structured literature study. We observe th

SUBMITTER: Schouten AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9899172 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature