Effect of surgeons, anesthesiologists on OR time

Editor's Note

Compared with type of procedure, differences between surgeons account for a small part of OR time variability, and the effect of differences between anesthesiologists is negligible, this study finds.

Differences between surgeons accounted for 2.9% of variability in OR time, and differences between anesthesiologists accounted for 0.1%.

BACKGROUND: Variability in operating room (OR) time causes overutilization and underutilization of the available ORs. There is evidence that for a given type of procedure, the surgeon is the major source of variability in OR time. The primary aim was to quantify the variability between surgeons a...