Letter/Communication
Opportunity cost of mean 1.7 minutes of tardiness of late first case of the day starts
The American journal of surgery, Vol.220(1), pp.249-249
07/2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.10.016
PMID: 31629463
Abstract
•Opportunity costs of operating room time are not simply proportional to unused time.•Methods to calculate opportunity costs of operating room time are well developed.•Opportunity costs are sensitive to total hours of cases and turnovers per room per day.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Opportunity cost of mean 1.7 minutes of tardiness of late first case of the day starts
- Creators
- Franklin Dexter - Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, 6 JCP, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United StatesRichard H Epstein - Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine & Pain Management, University of Miami, United States
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Publication Details
- The American journal of surgery, Vol.220(1), pp.249-249
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.10.016
- PMID
- 31629463
- ISSN
- 0002-9610
- eISSN
- 1879-1883
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2020
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9983984511402771
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