... improvement. Originality/value The methods presented in this article are rooted in traditional industrial engineering work measurement methods but are applied to a healthcare setting in order to efficiently identify areas for improvement including time, personnel, and processes in operating rooms...

... programs to improve their operating room efficiency (ORE). The initiative was co-sponsored by VHA National Surgery Office and VHA Office of Systems Redesign and Improvement. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach An SFII algorithm, based on first-time-start (FTS...

... for healthcare services to identify the sources of preventable disruption affecting operative time within the perioperative process and to effectively reduce it. Design/methodology/approach Events inside and outside operating rooms that disturb the operative time were recorded for 31 elective surgeries over...