An intensive course is given at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and by web conferencing based on the above lectures and these assignments.

Operational decision-making (e.g., existing cases at lower cost)
	Service-specific operating room staffing
	Anesthesiologist training for decisions on afternoons, evenings, and weekends
	Decision-making on the day of surgery
	Anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist staffing
	Economics of reducing turnover times (for US surgical suites)
	Physician Agreements – Anesthesia Support & Surgeon Blocks
	Economics of anesthetic agents

Tactical decision-making (e.g., more cases with same or slightly more capacity)
	Operating room financial assessment for tactical decision-making

Strategic decision-making (e.g., how differentiate our surgical services)
	Showing differences among hospitals and their surgical practices
	Strategic planning: financial impact of different types of surgery

For a list of some key papers in operating room management, click here.

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