Journal article
Application of prediction levels to OR scheduling
AORN journal, Vol.63(3), pp.607-610,615
03/1996
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-2092(06)63398-X
PMID: 8651672
Abstract
Many perioperative managers record operating room times (ORTs) and use average ORTs to facilitate scheduling of elective surgical procedures. A second statistic, the upper 95% prediction level (ie, 95% chance the next ORT will be less than the upper prediction level) can be calculated from previous ORTs and used in scheduling elective procedures. The author used eight elective surgical procedures to test a distribution-free method for calculating ORT upper prediction levels. Upper prediction levels can provide perioperative managers better knowledge than average ORTs to facilitate decision making during the scheduling of elective surgical procedures. This method can be used to find upper prediction levels for any desired measure of procedure duration (eg, surgeon, scheduled procedure-specific times).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Application of prediction levels to OR scheduling
- Creators
- F Dexter - Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Iowa City 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- AORN journal, Vol.63(3), pp.607-610,615
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0001-2092(06)63398-X
- PMID
- 8651672
- ISSN
- 0001-2092
- eISSN
- 1878-0369
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1996
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9983806277802771
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