Estimating the Duration of a Case When the Surgeon Has Not Recently Scheduled the Procedure at the Surgical Suite
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Vol. 89 (5) , 1241-1245
- https://doi.org/10.1213/00000539-199911000-00030
Abstract
When no recent historical time data are available for a surgeon doing a given procedure, the mean of the durations of cases of the same scheduled procedure performed by other surgeons is as accurate an estimate as more sophisticated analyses. More research is needed to improve the precision of estimates of case durations.Keywords
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