IMPROVING OR TURNOVER TIME: A BETTER PROCESS STARTS WITH THE PATIENT.
- Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 410 W. 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
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The operating room (OR) is one of the most important areas in the hospital and increasing the utilization of the OR can pay dividends. The activities of OR Turnover can be divided into 4 distinct phases: ?incision close to wheels out?, ?wheels out to OR Ready?, ?wheels out to next patient ready?, and ?OR Ready to wheels in?. A Six Sigma project at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) indicated that out of these phases, Wheels Out to OR Ready was a static process with maximum limits on efficiency and impact on turnover. In this article we introduce the dynamic nature of the ?Patient Ready? aspect and discuss its impact on the operating room turnover time based on our proposed model. Overall, increasing time efficiencies and controlling variability in ?OR Ready? and ?Patient Ready? processes and completing them concurrently will not only be beneficial to the hospital financially, but also will improve the quality of patient care and patient satisfaction.
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[Nitish Aggarwal, Nicoleta Stoicea, Muhammad Shabsigh, Jarrett Heard and Michael Guertin. (2017); IMPROVING OR TURNOVER TIME: A BETTER PROCESS STARTS WITH THE PATIENT. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 102-108] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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