Models for Improving Operating Room Productivity: Delays, Cancellations and Pre-admission Testing

Models for Improving Operating Room Productivity: Delays, Cancellations and Pre-admission Testing

The goal of the study is to identify factors that enhance productivity and increase value delivered by hospitals drawing on concepts used in industry for quality and productivity in production and operations management literature. The investigators intend to look at surgeon experience, patient characteristics and pre-admission testing on operating room productivity.

Inclusion Criteria:

• All scheduled surgical patients' information gathered in Surgery database from January 2010 thru August 2020 will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any case type where less than 5 surgeries were performed by a surgeon would be excluded and if the surgeon in question had less than 3 months of data available.