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OR efficiency

With operating rooms often accounting for one of the costliest centers of a hospital, making an idea reality can be difficult. These case studies provide real world insight into how your peers have implemented new strategies to improve OR efficiency:

• 3 ways Intermountain improved its OR efficiency: This blog explores Intermountain Healthcare's approach to reduce cumulative OR tardiness on three factors: case on-time starts, case duration, and turnover time. Intermountain's three-pronged approach focused on creating a culture of urgency, tracking case duration, and redesigning staff roles, all of which led to a 15% decrease in average OR turnaround time.

• Brazil: Improving Operating Room Efficiency: This research article highlights how the health system Américas Serviços Médicos used strategic partnerships to develop and implement a plan to improve OR efficiency across six hospitals in its system. 

If you are looking to improve perioperative processes at your organization, these resources can be helpful:

• The Surgery Compendium: This research report provides best practices to improve overall surgical efficiency. The report addresses scheduling tactics before analyzing preoperative and postoperative processes to improve surgical flow. 

• 3 strategic benefits of surgery prep program: This article explains how pre-surgery prep programs can lead to volume growth, improved patient satisfaction, and better conditions for value-based care.