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Cases, Staffing at the End of the Day and on Weekends, 2010 Ledolter J, Dexter F, Wachtel RE. Control chart monitoring of the numbers of cases waiting when anesthesiologists do not bring in members of call team. Anesthesia & Analgesia 111:196-203, 20102009 Basso O. Cost analysis of a system of ad hoc theatre sessions for the management of delayed trauma cases. Journal of Orthopaedic Traumatology 10:91-96, 2009 Dexter F, Epstein RH, Elgart RL, Ledolter J. Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists. Anesthesia & Analgesia 109:1246-1252, 2009 [PDF]2008 Cosgrove JF, Gaughan M, Snowden CP, Lees T. Decreasing delays in urgent and expedited surgery in university teaching hospital through audit and communication between peri-operative and surgical directorates. Anaesthesia 63:599-603, 2008 Kim YJ, Xiao Y, Hu P, Dutton R. Staff acceptance of video monitoring for coordination: a video system to support perioperative situation awareness. Journal of Clinical Nursing 18:2366-2371, 2008 Testi A, Tanfani E, Valente R, Ansaldo GL, Torre GC. Prioritizing surgical waiting lists. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 14:59-64, 2008 van Oostrum JM, Van Houdenhoven M, Vrielink MM, Klein J, Hans EW, Klimek M, Wullink G, Steyerberg EW, Kazemier G. A simulation model for determining the optimal size of emergency teams on call in the operating room at night. Anesthesia & Analgesia 107:1655-1662, 2008 Xiao
Y, Dexter F, Hu P, Dutton RP.
Usage of distributed displays of operating room video when real-time occupancy status was available.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:554-560, 2008 [PDF] 2007 Dexter F, Willemsen-Dunlap A, Lee JD. Operating room managerial decision-making on the day of surgery with and without computer recommendations and status displays. Anesthesia and Analgesia 105:419-429, 2007 [PDF]Faiz O, Banerjee S, Tekkis P, Papagrigoriadis S, Rennie J, Leather A. We still need to operate at night!. World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2:29, 2007
Wullink G, Houdenhoven M, Hans EW, Oostrum JM, Lans M, Kazemier G.
Closing emergency operating rooms improves efficiency.
Journal of Medical Systems 31:543-546, 2007 2006 Bhattacharyya T, Vrahas MS, Morrison SM, Kim E, Wiklund RA, Smith RM, Rubash HE. The value of the dedicated orthopaedic trauma operating room. The Journal of Trauma 60:1336-1341, 2006Dexter F, Epstein RH. Holiday and weekend operating room on-call staffing requirements. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1494-1498, 2006 [PDF] Fitzgerald J, Lum M, Dadich A. Scheduling unplanned surgery: a tool for improving dialogue about queue position on emergency theatre lists. Australian Health Review 30:219-231, 2006 O’Sullivan CT, Dexter F. Assigning surgical cases with regional anesthetic blocks to anesthetists and operating rooms based on operating room efficiency. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 74:213-218, 2006
Torkki PM, Alho AI, Peltokorpi AV, Torkki MI, Kallio PE.
Managing urgent surgery as a process: case study of a trauma center.
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 22:255-260, 2006
2005
Charalambous CP, Tryfonidis M, Paschalides C, Lamprianou I, Samarji R, Hirst P.
Operating out of hours in acute orthopaedics: Variations amongst surgeons and regions in the United Kingdom.
Injury 36:1306-1310, 2005 2004 Dexter F, Epstein RH, Traub RD, Xiao Y. Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times. Anesthesiology 101:1444-1453, 2004 [PDF]
Seagull FJ, Xiao Y, Plasters C.
Information accuracy and sampling effort: a field study of surgical scheduling coordination.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A. 34:764-771, 2004 2003 Dexter F, Epstein RH. Optimizing
second shift OR staffing. AORN Journal 77:825-830, 2003 2002 Conaghan PJ, Figueira E, Griffin MA, Ingham Clark CL. Randomized clinical trial of the effectiveness of emergency day surgery against standard inpatient treatment. British Journal of Surgery 89:423-427, 2002 Dexter F, Epstein RH, HM Marsh. Costs and risks of weekend anesthesia staffing at six independently managed surgical suites. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 70:377-381, 2002 Windokun
A, Obideyi A. Audit
of emergency theatre utilisation. African Journal of Medicine
& Medical Sciences 31:59-62, 2002 2001 Dexter F, O’Neill L. Weekend operating room on-call staffing requirements: schedule each staff member in-house or on standby from home? AORN Journal 74:666-671, 2001 Lucas CE, Buechter KJ, Coscia RL, Hurst JM, Meredith JW, Middleton JD, Rinker CR, Tuggle D, Vlahos AL, Wilberger J. Mathematical modeling to define optimum operating room staffing needs for trauma centers. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 192:559-565, 2001 Pearse
RM, Dana EC, Lanigan CJ, Pook JA. Organisational
failures in urgent and emergency surgery. A potential peri-operative
risk factor. Anaesthesia 56:684-689, 2001, with letter
1204-1205 2000 Dexter F. A strategy to decide whether to move the last case of the day in an operating room to another empty operating room to decrease overtime labor costs. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:925-928, 2000 Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Statistical method using operating room information system data to determine anesthetist weekend call requirements. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 68:21-26, 2000 Dexter
F, Traub RD. Determining
staffing requirements for a second shift of anesthetists by graphical
analysis of data from operating room information systems.
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 68:31-36, 2000 1999 Dexter F, Macario A, O’Neill L. A strategy for deciding operating room assignments for second-shift anesthetists. Anesthesia & Analgesia 89:920-924, 1999 Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Which algorithm for scheduling add-on elective cases maximizes operating room utilization? Use of bin packing algorithms and fuzzy constraints in operating room management. Anesthesiology 91:1491-1500, 1999 [PDF] Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Optimal sequencing of urgent surgical cases - scheduling cases using operating room information systems. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 15:153-162, 1999 Tucker
JB, Barone JE, Cecere J, Blabey RG, Rha CK. Using
queueing theory to determine operating room staffing needs.
Journal of Trauma- Injury, Infection, & Critical Care
46:71-77, 1999 1998 Zhou
J, Dexter F. Method
to assist in the scheduling of add-on surgical cases -
upper prediction bounds for surgical case durations based on the log
normal distribution. Anesthesiology 89:1228-1232,
1998 1997 Lucas CE, Dombi GW, Crilly RJ, Ledgerwood AM, Yu P, Vlahos A. Neurosurgical trauma call: use of a mathematical simulation program to define manpower needs. Journal of Trauma 42:818-824, 1997 Tessler
MJ, Kleiman SJ, Huberman MM. A
“zero tolerance for overtime” increases surgical per case costs.
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 44:1036-1041, 1997 1996 Dexter F. Application of prediction levels to operating room scheduling. AORN Journal 63:607-615, 1996
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