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  1. Effect of a non-reactive absorbent with or without environmentally oriented electronic feedback on anesthesia provider's fresh gas flow rates: A greening initiative
  2. Counting episodes of poor-quality faculty anesthesiologists' supervision and anesthesia residents' work habits among reported vignettes of insufficient professionalism
  3. Survey of anesthesia department chairs about the environmental sustainability initiatives of their programs
  4. Lack of Validity of Absolute Percentage Errors in Estimated Operating Room Case Durations as a Measure of Operating Room Performance: A Focused Narrative Review
  5. Preventing Prolonged Times to Awakening While Mitigating the Risk of Patient Awareness: Gas Man Computer Simulations of Sevoflurane Consumption From Brief, High Fresh Gas Flow Before the End of Surgery
  6. Fundamentals of operating room allocation and case scheduling to minimize the inefficiency of use of the time
  7. Patient and Operational Factors Do Not Substantively Affect the Annual Departmental Quality of Anesthesiologists’ Clinical Supervision and Nurse Anesthetists’ Work Habits
  8. Survey of Lactating Anesthesiologists Using Wearable Breast Milk Pumps While Working in Operating Rooms and Other Clinical Settings
  9. A threshold of 100 or more colony-forming units on the anesthesia machine predicts bacterial pathogen detection: a retrospective laboratory-based analysis
  10. Modeling daily veterinary anesthetist patient care hours and probabilities of exceeding critical thresholds
  11. Introduction to Bayesian Analyses for Clinical Research
  12. Association between an anesthesia department development program for junior faculty and long-term production of publications: A longitudinal cohort study
  13. Estimation of the contribution to intraoperative pathogen transmission from bacterial contamination of patient nose, patient groin and axilla, anesthesia practitioners' hands, anesthesia machine, and intravenous lumen
  14. Role of Anesthesia Providers in Infection Control
  15. The Relative Efficacy of Multiple Syringe Tip Disinfection Techniques Against Virulent Staphylococcus Contamination
  16. General anesthesia techniques reducing the time to satisfy phase I post-anesthesia care unit discharge criteria: Narrative review of randomized clinical trials and cohort studies studying unit bypass, supplemented with computer simulation
  17. Lack of Benefit of Adjusting Adaptively Daily Invitations for the Evaluation of the Quality of Anesthesiologists’ Supervision and Nurse Anesthetists’ Work Habits
  18. Systematic review with meta-analysis of relative risk of prolonged times to tracheal extubation with desflurane versus sevoflurane or isoflurane
  19. Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Iowa satisfaction with anesthesia scale for use in Brazil: a cross-sectional study
  20. Bibliometric Analysis of Contributions of Anesthesiology Journals and Anesthesiologists to Operating Room Management Science
  21. Narrative Review of Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation After General Anesthesia With Intubation and Extubation in the Operating Room
  22. Operating Room Allocation and Case Scheduling Have the Largest Effect on Underutilized Time
  23. Associations Between Fresh Gas Flow and Duration of Anesthetic on the Maximum Potential Benefit of Anesthetic Gas Capture in Operating Rooms and in Postanesthesia Care Units to Capture Waste Anesthetic Gas
  24. Narrative review of mathematical and psychological studies of staff scheduling for holidays as applicable to anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists
  25. Overall anesthesia department quality of clinical supervision of trainees over a year evaluated using mixed effects models
  26. Retrospective cohort study of anaesthesia machines shows low bacterial contamination can be achieved with surface disinfection
  27. Characterizing the Molecular Epidemiology of Anaesthesia Work Area Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus ST5
  28. Bacterial contamination of syringe tips after anaesthesia care with use of disinfectable needleless closed connector devices
  29. La plupart des patient·es hospitalisé·es à risque d’infection bactérienne bénéficient d’une anesthésie : implications pour les pratiques de contrôle des infections liées à l’espace de travail d’anesthésie
  30. Interpretable machine learning models for hospital readmission prediction: a two-step extracted regression tree approach
  31. Forecasting Caseload of Critically Ill Patients Who Are Alert and Without Delirium for at Least Two Consecutive Days for the Assessment of Their Psychological Distress
  32. Over-Application and Interviewing in the 2021 United States Primary Care Virtual Recruitment Season
  33. The efficacy of multifaceted versus single anesthesia work area infection control measures and the importance of surgical site infection follow-up duration
  34. Exceedance Probabilities of Log-normal Distributions for One Group, Two Groups, and Meta-analysis of Multiple Two-group Studies, With Application to Analyses of Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation
  35. Response Variability of Large Language Models (Preprint)
  36. Variability in Large Language Models’ Responses to Medical Licensing and Certification (Preprint)
  37. Patients Undergoing Elective Inpatient Major Therapeutic Procedures in Florida Had No Significant Change in Hospital Mortality or Mortality-Related Comorbidities Between 2007 and 2019
  38. Influence on the incidence of prolonged times to tracheal extubation from the anesthesia practitioner having completed few prior cases with the surgeon
  39. Quantifying and Interpreting Inequality in Surgical Site Infections per Quarter Among Anesthetizing Locations and Specialties
  40. Association of surgeons’ gender with elective surgical lists in the State of Florida is explained by differences in mean operative caseloads
  41. Absence of a Comprehensive Literature Search Protocol in a Systematic Review of Published Studies Describing Operating Room Optimization
  42. Lack of Useful Predictors of Dignity-Related Distress Among the Critically Ill as Assessed With the Patient Dignity Inventory
  43. Logistic Regression and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Whether Intensive Care Patients Who Are Alert and Without Delirium Remain As Such for at Least Two More Days
  44. Lack of validity and generalizability of predicted probabilities of surgical case cancellation from excluding consideration of preoperative anesthesia evaluation
  45. Long-term capacity planning for obstetric surgical suites using quantile linear regression
  46. Staphylococcus aureus Transmission in the Anaesthesia Work Area Has Greater Risk of Association with Development of Surgical Site Infection when Resistant to the Prophylactic Antibiotic Administered for Surgery
  47. 20: DIGNITY-RELATED DISTRESS AMONG THE CRITICALLY ILL: CONCORDANCE BETWEEN PATIENT AND FAMILY
  48. Epidemiology of Enterococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Enterobacter Species Transmission in the Pediatric Anesthesia Work Area Environment With and Without Practitioner Use of a Personalized Body-Worn Alcohol D...
  49. Frequency of Follow-Up Assessment for Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Among Alert and Non-Delirious Critically Ill Patients
  50. Variability of the times remaining in surgical cases and the importance of knowing when closure has started
  51. Association Between the Community Prevalence of COVID-19 and Daily Unscheduled Absences of Anesthesiologists, Nurse Anesthetists, and Residents in an Academic Anesthesia Department
  52. Patients in Iowa Counties Lacking Hospitals With Labor and Delivery Services Disproportionately Receive Care at Level III Maternal Care Hospitals When Undergoing Cesarean Delivery: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study
  53. Overestimation of the Causal Effects of Medications on Delirium During Postoperative Hospital Days
  54. Scheduling staff for ambulatory anaesthesia
  55. Intubation biomechanics: Computational modeling to identify methods to minimize cervical spine motion and spinal cord strain during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation in an intact cervical spine
  56. Earlier studies of prolonged times to tracheal extubation after end of surgery
  57. American Society of Anesthesiologists' Relative Value Guide
  58. Molecular characterisation and epidemiology of transmission of intraoperative Staphylococcus aureus isolates stratified by vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
  59. Estimating costs of anesthesia supplies for intraoperative infection control
  60. The Importance of Targeting Intraoperative Transmission of Bacteria with Antibiotic Resistance and Strain Characteristics
  61. More accurate, unbiased predictions of operating room times increase labor productivity with the same staff scheduling provided allocated hours are increased
  62. Prophylactic Methylergonovine and Oxytocin Compared With Oxytocin Alone in Patients Undergoing Intrapartum Cesarean Birth
  63. Cesarean delivery availability in Iowa was not constrained by anesthesia workforce limitations: retrospective cohort study of inpatient surgery case counts
  64. Evaluation of the start of surgical closure as a milestone for forecasting the time remaining to exit the operating room: A retrospective, observational cohort study
  65. Earlier Studies in Anesthesia & Analgesia of Case Scheduling and Cancellation Within the Week of Surgery
  66. Assigning Cases to Operating Rooms With Objectives That Include Leveling Workflow in the Post-anesthesia Care Unit
  67. Feasibility of Anesthesiologists Giving Nurse Anesthetists 30-Minute Lunch Breaks and 15-Minute Morning Breaks at a University’s Facilities
  68. Relationship Between Glottic View and Intubation Force During Macintosh and Airtraq Laryngoscopy and Intubation
  69. Benchmarking Surgeons’ Gender and Year of Medical School Graduation Associated With Monthly Operative Workdays for Multispecialty Groups
  70. Effectiveness and feasibility of an evidence-based intraoperative infection control program targeting improved basic measures; a post-implementation prospective case-cohort study
  71. More surgery in December among US patients with commercial insurance is offset by unrelated but lesser surgery among patients with Medicare insurance
  72. Case duration prediction and estimating time remaining in ongoing cases
  73. Evidence-based intraoperative infection control measures plus feedback are associated with attenuation of SARS-CoV-2 detection in operating rooms
  74. Effect of Insufficient Interaction on the Evaluation of Anesthesiologists’ Quality of Clinical Supervision by Anesthesiology Residents and Fellows
  75. Decision-making for end-of-day relief of anesthesiologists based on equity can decrease group productivity: Historical cohort study from a hospital with both anesthesia residents and nurse anesthetists
  76. Cancellation rates after virtual, telephone-based preoperative anesthesia evaluations
  77. Binomial entropy of anesthesiologists’ ratings of nurse anesthetists’ clinical performance explains information loss when adjusting evaluations for rater leniency
  78. Similarities Between Pediatric and General Hospitals Based on Fundamental Attributes of Surgery Including Cases Per Surgeon Per Workday
  79. The effect of few historical data on the performance of sample average approximation method for operating room scheduling
  80. Cervical Injury after Videolaryngoscopy in Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Comment
  81. Use of Time Stamp Data to Determine Direct Associations Between Predictive Error in Case Durations and Operating Room Utilization
  82. Average number of anesthetics still in progress in the early evening increased at least proportionally to the numbers of anesthetizing locations in the morning: A retrospective, long-term longitudinal study at two large hospitals
  83. Most surgeons' daily elective lists in Florida comprise only 1 or 2 elective cases, making percent utilization unreliable for planning individual surgeons' block time
  84. Managing capacity for urgent surgery: staffing, staff scheduling in-house or on-call from home, and work assignments
  85. Intubation Biomechanics: Clinical Implications of Computational Modeling of Intervertebral Motion and Spinal Cord Strain during Tracheal Intubation in an Intact Cervical Spine
  86. Low Prevalence of Designated Lactation Spaces at Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers in Iowa: An Educational Tool for Graduates’ Job Selection
  87. Elements of Pregnancy and Parenthood Policies of Importance to Medical Students and Included in a Sample of Medical Schools' Websites and Student Handbooks
  88. Statistical Design of Overnight Trials for the Evaluation of the Number of Operating Rooms That Can Be Disinfected by an Ultraviolet Light Disinfection Robotic System
  89. An assessment of the impact of recommended anesthesia work area cleaning procedures on intraoperative SARS-CoV-2 contamination, a case-series analysis
  90. Impact of anesthesia resident staff assignment decisions on nurse anesthetist and anesthesia resident staff scheduling and productivity: Tutorial using data from a pediatric hospital
  91. Reducing Over-Interviewing in the Anesthesiology Residency Match
  92. Narrative review of neuraxial potassium chloride administration errors: clinical features, human factors, and prevention measures
  93. Average and longest expected treatment times for ultraviolet light disinfection of rooms
  94. The anesthetizing sites supervised to anesthesiologist ratio is an invalid surrogate for group productivity in academic anesthesia departments when used without consideration of the corresponding managerial decisions
  95. Multicollinearity in Logistic Regression Models
  96. Simply Adjusting for Schedulers’ Bias in Estimated Case Durations Can Accomplish the Same Objectives of Improving Predictions as Use of Machine Learning
  97. Briefest Time to Perform a Series of Preoperative Nerve Blocks in Multiple Patients: A Simulation Study
  98. Implications of the log-normal distribution for updating estimates of the time remaining until ready for phase I post-anesthesia care unit discharge
  99. Minimising the number of cancellations at the time of a severe lack of postanesthesia care unit beds or nurses
  100. Sustained management of the variability in work hours among anesthesiologists providing patient care in operating rooms and not on call to work late if necessary
  101. Design of Clinical Trials Evaluating Sedation in Critically Ill Adults Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation: Recommendations From Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research (SCEPTER) Recommendation III
  102. Proportions of Surgical Patients Discharged Home the Same or the Next Day Are Sufficient Data to Assess Cases’ Contributions to Hospital Occupancy
  103. Suggested Work Guidelines, Based on Operating Room Data, for Departments with a Breast Milk Pumping Supervising Anesthesiologist
  104. Quantifying and interpreting inequality of surgical site infections among operating rooms
  105. Percentages of Cases in Operating Rooms of Sufficient Duration to Accommodate a 30-Minute Breast Milk Pumping Session by Anesthesia Residents or Nurse Anesthetists
  106. Implications of anesthesiology resident availability on first-case staffing
  107. Caseload is increased by resequencing cases before and on the day of surgery at ambulatory surgery centers where initial patient recovery is in operating rooms and cleanup times are longer than typical
  108. Comparisons of unscheduled absences among categories of anesthesia practitioners, including anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and anesthesia residents
  109. Sample times for surveillance of S. aureus transmission to monitor effectiveness and provide feedback on intraoperative infection control
  110. Representation of women as editors in major pain journals
  111. Erratum for: Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
  112. Endpoints and methods for valid and reliable ranking of anesthesiologists' clinical performance
  113. Comparison of Percentage Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation Between a Japanese Teaching Hospital and One in the United States, Without and With a Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit
  114. Forecasting the Probability That Each Surgical Case Will Either Be Ambulatory or the Patient Will Remain in the Hospital Overnight Versus Having a Length of Stay of Two or More Days
  115. Operating room air delivery design to protect patient and surgical site results in particles released at surgical table having greater concentration along walls of the room than at the instrument tray
  116. Association between leniency of anesthesiologists when evaluating certified registered nurse anesthetists and when evaluating didactic lectures
  117. Building a Brain Tumor Practice: Objective Analysis of Referral Patterns and Implications for the Growth of a Subspecialty Surgical Program
  118. Appropriate operating room time allocations and half-day block time for low caseload proceduralists, including anesthesiologist pain medicine physicians in the State of Florida
  119. Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
  120. Changes in current employment positions after taking an operating room management course content by physicians and non-physicians and potential use of the content
  121. Operating room management when the binding constraint on surgery is availability of personal protective equipment
  122. Policy Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Light of Most Patients (≥72%) Spending Only One Night at the Hospital After Elective, Major Therapeutic Procedures
  123. Lack of recall after sedation for cataract surgery and its effect on the validity of measuring patient satisfaction
  124. Interview Data Highlight Importance of “Same-State” on Anesthesiology Residency Match
  125. Sex-Specific Intubation Biomechanics: Intubation Forces Are Greater in Male Than in Female Patients, Independent of Body Weight
  126. A Predictive Model for Patient Census and Ventilator Requirements at Individual Hospitals During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Preliminary Technical Report
  127. Demonstrability of analytics solutions and shared knowledge of statistics and operating room management improves expected performance of small teams in correctly solving problems and making good decisions
  128. Case Series of Adaptive Changes in Clinical Practice and Trainee Education for Cesarean Delivery due to Drug Shortages of 0.75% Hyperbaric Bupivacaine in 2018
  129. Sample sizes for surveillance of S. aureus transmission to monitor effectiveness and provide feedback on intraoperative infection control including for COVID-19
  130. Bland–Altman analysis for bias in estimates of scheduled versus actual times of operating room entry
  131. Importance of oral and nasal decontamination for patients undergoing anesthetics during the COVID-19 era
  132. Reliability and Validity of Performance Evaluations of Pain Medicine Clinical Faculty by Residents and Fellows Using a Supervision Scale
  133. The Effect of Improving Basic Preventive Measures in the Perioperative Arena on Staphylococcus aureus Transmission and Surgical Site Infections
  134. Futility of Cluster Designs at Individual Hospitals to Study Surgical Site Infections and Interventions Involving the Installation of Capital Equipment in Operating Rooms
  135. Prolonged tracheal extubation time after glioma surgery was associated with lack of familiarity between the anesthesia provider and the operating neurosurgeon. A retrospective, observational study
  136. Steps for infection control in operating rooms and case scheduling and workflow.
  137. Time is Money: Punctuality is Priceless
  138. Late first-case of the day starts do not cause greater minutes of over-utilized time at an endoscopy suite with 8-hour workdays and late running rooms. A historical cohort study
  139. The Distributions of Weekday Discharge Times at Acute Care Hospitals in the State of Florida were Static from 2010 to 2018
  140. Transcultural validation of a French version of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale (ISAS-F)
  141. Surgical volume estimates using national or state databases can reasonably disregard missing cases from patients undergoing multiple surgeries on the same day other than for cardiac, vascular, and trauma cases
  142. Decline of Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Cases Performed at Florida General Hospitals Between 2010 and 2018
  143. Fifteen Years of Research on Surgical Case Duration Prediction by Combining Preoperatively Available Service and Surgeon Data
  144. US critical access hospitals' listings of pain medicine physicians and other clinicians performing interventional pain procedures
  145. Annual Number of Spinal Cord Stimulation Procedures Performed in the State of Florida During 2018: Implications for Establishing Neuromodulation Centers of Excellence
  146. Benefit of systematic selection of pairs of cases matched by surgical specialty for surveillance of bacterial transmission in operating rooms
  147. Assessment of anesthesia machine redesign on cleaning of the anesthesia machine using surface disinfection wipes
  148. Hospitals with greater diversities of physiologically complex procedures do not achieve greater production of such inpatient surgical procedures
  149. Determination of Geolocations for Anesthesia Specialty Coverage and Standby Call Allowing Return to the Hospital Within a Specified Amount of Time
  150. Nurse anesthetists' preferences for anesthesiologists' participation in patient care at a large teaching hospital
  151. Reliability of ranking anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists using leniency-adjusted clinical supervision and work habits scores
  152. Importance of operating room case scheduling on analyses of observed reductions in surgical site infections from the purchase and installation of capital equipment in operating rooms
  153. Re: The Role of Patient and Procedure Specific Factors in Urology Operating Room Perioperative Times
  154. Opportunity cost of mean 1.7 minutes of tardiness of late first case of the day starts
  155. Throughout the United States, pediatric patients undergoing ambulatory surgery enter the operating room and are discharged earlier in the day than are adults
  156. Trends in Direct Hospital Payments to Anesthesia Groups
  157. Trust improves during one-day resident operating room management course preceded by directed study of required statistical content
  158. Improving intraoperative handoffs for ambulatory anesthesia: challenges and solutions for the anesthesiologist [Corrigendum]
  159. Heterogeneity Among Hospitals in the Percentages of All Lumbosacral Epidural Steroid Injections Where the Patient Had Received 4 or More in the Previous Year
  160. Development and Validation of an Algorithm to Classify as Equivalent the Procedures in ICD-10-PCS That Differ Only by Laterality
  161. Economic Savings From Changing Anesthetic Agent Purchasing Must Include Costs Associated With Expected Changes in Case Times Known From Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials
  162. Postanesthesia Care Unit Costs Are Heterogeneous Among Hospitals, Principally Determined by Delays in Patient Admission From Operating Rooms
  163. Unintended Consequences of Clinical Decision Support
  164. Limited Intragenerational Mobility of Surgical Caseload of Iowa Hospitals
  165. Response to BotulinumtoxinA in a migraine cohort with multiple comorbidities and widespread pain
  166. Nurse anesthetists' evaluations of anesthesiologists' operating room performance are sensitive to anesthesiologists' years of postgraduate practice
  167. Improving intraoperative handoffs for ambulatory anesthesia: challenges and solutions for the anesthesiologist
  168. Obtaining and Modeling Variability in Travel Times From Off-Site Satellite Clinics to Hospitals and Surgery Centers for Surgeons and Proceduralists Seeing Office Patients in the Morning and Performing a To-Follow List of Cases in the Afternoon
  169. Anesthetic Management of Emergency Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke, Part 2
  170. Operating room PathTrac analysis of current intraoperative Staphylococcus aureus transmission dynamics
  171. Provider Access to Legacy Electronic Anesthesia Records Following Implementation of an Electronic Health Record System
  172. Device implantation rates during inpatient surgery differ among payers at critical access versus other hospitals
  173. Tardiness of starts of surgical cases is not substantively greater when the preceding surgeon in an operating room is of a different versus the same specialty
  174. Unscheduled absences in a cohort of nurse anesthetists during a 3-year period: Statistical implications for the identification of outlier personnel
  175. Lack of a substantive effect of insurance and the national US payment system on the relative distribution of surgical cases among hospitals in the State of Iowa: A retrospective, observational, cohort study
  176. Influence of parameter uncertainty on the tardiness of the start of a surgical case following a preceding surgical case performed by a different surgeon
  177. Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management
  178. Influence of Annual Meetings of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and of Large National Surgical Societies on Caseloads of Major Therapeutic Procedures
  179. At all hospitals in the State of Iowa over a decade, the number of cases performed during weekends or holidays increased approximately proportionally to the total caseload
  180. Desiccation tolerance is associated with Staphylococcus aureus hypertransmissibility, resistance and infection development in the operating room
  181. Evaluating Patient-Centered Outcomes in Clinical Trials of Procedural Sedation, Part 2 Safety
  182. Use and scoring of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale
  183. High-risk Staphylococcus aureus transmission in the operating room: A call for widespread improvements in perioperative hand hygiene and patient decolonization practices
  184. Implications of variation by time of day in post-anaesthesia care unit length of stay for rational nurse staffing
  185. Time to recovery after general anesthesia at hospitals with and without a phase I post-anesthesia care unit: a historical cohort study
  186. Heterogeneity among hospitals statewide in percentage shares of the annual growth of surgical caseloads of inpatient and outpatient major therapeutic procedures
  187. Interchangeability of counts of cases and hours of cases for quantifying a hospital's change in workload among four-week periods of 1 year
  188. Many US hospital-affiliated freestanding ambulatory surgery centers are located on hospital campuses, relevant to interpretation of studies involving ambulatory surgery
  189. Comparing Anesthesia Durations Among Hospitals Based on Statistical Methods Described in Previous Publications in Anesthesia & Analgesia
  190. Database Quality and Access Issues Relevant to Research Using Anesthesia Information Management System Data
  191. Treating surgical turnover times as statistically independent events when testing interventions and mobile applications
  192. Differences in the incidence and timing of reintubation in the postanesthesia care unit among large teaching hospitals
  193. Hospitals with greater diversities of physiologically complex procedures do not achieve greater surgical growth in a market with stable numbers of such procedures
  194. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has greater risk of transmission in the operating room than methicillin-sensitive S aureus
  195. Patient Survey of Referral From One Surgeon to Another to Reduce Maximum Waiting Time for Elective Surgery and Hours of Overutilized Operating Room Time
  196. Relative importance of strategies for improving the sample size selection and reporting of small randomized clinical trials in anesthesiology
  197. Prioritizations of individual surgeons’ patients waiting for elective procedures: A systematic review and future directions
  198. The Anesthesiologist-Informatician
  199. Years Versus Days Between Successive Surgeries, After an Initial Outpatient Procedure, for the Median Patient Versus the Median Surgeon in the State of Iowa
  200. Reductions in Average Lengths of Stays for Surgical Procedures Between the 2008 and 2014 United States National Inpatient Samples Were Not Associated With Greater Incidences of Use of Postacute Care Facilities
  201. Lack of generalizability of observational studies' findings for turnover time reduction and growth in surgery based on the State of Iowa, where from one year to the next, most growth was attributable to surgeons performing only a few cases per week
  202. Perioperative Temperature Measurement Considerations Relevant to Reporting Requirements for National Quality Programs Using Data From Anesthesia Information Management Systems
  203. Intubation biomechanics: validation of a finite element model of cervical spine motion during endotracheal intubation in intact and injured conditions
  204. Monte Carlo Simulations Comparing Fisher Exact Test and Unequal Variances t Test for Analysis of Differences Between Groups in Brief Hospital Lengths of Stay
  205. Incidence of non-physiologically complex surgical procedures performed in children: an Ontario population-based study of health administrative data
  206. Large Variability in the Diversity of Physiologically Complex Surgical Procedures Exists Nationwide Among All Hospitals Including Among Large Teaching Hospitals
  207. Validation of a New Method to Automatically Select Cases With Intraoperative Red Blood Cell Transfusion for Audit
  208. At most hospitals in the state of Iowa, most surgeons' daily lists of elective cases include only 1 or 2 cases: Individual surgeons' percentage operating room utilization is a consistently unreliable metric
  209. Validity of using a work habits scale for the daily evaluation of nurse anesthetists' clinical performance while controlling for the leniencies of the rating anesthesiologists
  210. With directed study before a 4-day operating room management course, trust in the content did not change progressively during the classroom time
  211. Analyses of Time to Recovery Including Time to Tracheal Extubation Need to Be Performed While Incorporating Their Probability Distribution
  212. Analysis of perioperative antibiotic administration in electronic medical records: correlations among patients addressed by analyzing control chart data using the batch means method
  213. Bypass of an anesthesiologist-directed preoperative evaluation clinic results in greater first-case tardiness and turnover times
  214. Discharges with surgical procedures performed less often than once per month per hospital account for two-thirds of hospital costs of inpatient surgery
  215. In reply: Clinical supervision: what does it mean to be better?
  216. Previous scientific findings in block time by surgeon and in releasing allocated operating room time
  217. Readmissions to Different Hospitals After Common Surgical Procedures and Consequences for Implementation of Perioperative Surgical Home Programs
  218. Uncommon combinations of ICD10-PCS or ICD-9-CM operative procedure codes account for most inpatient surgery at half of Texas hospitals
  219. Recommendations for Procedural Sedation Clinical Trials
  220. Erratum to “Anesthesiologists' perceptions of minimum acceptable work habits of nurse anesthetists” [J Clin Anesth 38 (2017) 107–110]
  221. Intraoperative Handoffs Among Anesthesia Providers Increase the Incidence of Documentation Errors for Controlled Drugs
  222. Workload, efficiency, and productivity following open access scheduling in a gastrointestinal endoscopy suite
  223. Hypotension during induction of anaesthesia is neither a reliable nor a useful quality measure for comparison of anaesthetists’ performance
  224. In Response
  225. For assessment of changes in intraoperative red blood cell transfusion practices over time, the pooled incidence of transfusion correlates highly with total units transfused
  226. Importance of relying on examples for both anesthesiologists and other physicians to assign unbiased American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classifications
  227. Quantitative Assessment of Statistical Reviews of Patient Safety Research Articles
  228. Anesthesiologists' perceptions of minimum acceptable work habits of nurse anesthetists
  229. Neuromuscular Monitoring as the Art of Probability
  230. Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale for emergency medicine procedures
  231. Operating Room Anesthesia Subspecialization Is Not Associated With Significantly Greater Quality of Supervision of Anesthesia Residents and Nurse Anesthetists
  232. In Response
  233. Measurement of faculty anesthesiologists’ quality of clinical supervision has greater reliability when controlling for the leniency of the rating anesthesia resident: a retrospective cohort study
  234. Letter by Dexter and Hindman Regarding Article, “Anesthesia Technique and Outcomes of Mechanical Thrombectomy in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke”
  235. Narrative Review of Statistical Reporting Checklists, Mandatory Statistical Editing, and Rectifying Common Problems in the Reporting of Scientific Articles
  236. “Opt Out” and Access to Anesthesia Care for Elective and Urgent Surgeries among U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries
  237. Evaluating Patient-Centered Outcomes in Clinical Trials of Procedural Sedation, Part 1 Efficacy
  238. Mixed effects logistic regression modeling of daily evaluations of nurse anesthetists’ work habits adjusting for leniency of the rating anesthesiologists
  239. Content analysis of resident evaluations of faculty anesthesiologists: supervision encompasses some attributes of the professionalism core competency
  240. Development and validation of a structured query language implementation of the Elixhauser comorbidity index
  241. Effect of monetary incentives on first-case of the day starts
  242. Predicting odds of prolonged operative times
  243. Factors substantively influencing numbers of surgical cases performed at a research hospital
  244. Diversity and Similarity of Anesthesia Procedures in the United States During and Among Regular Work Hours, Evenings, and Weekends
  245. Do Not Use Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models with Low-incidence Outcome Data to Compare Anesthesiologists in Your Department
  246. US National Anesthesia Workload on Saturday and Sunday Mornings
  247. In Response
  248. Written Comments Made by Anesthesia Residents When Providing Below Average Scores for the Supervision Provided by the Faculty Anesthesiologist
  249. The Risks to Patient Privacy from Publishing Data from Clinical Anesthesia Studies
  250. Controlled Substance Reconciliation Accuracy Improvement Using Near Real-Time Drug Transaction Capture from Automated Dispensing Cabinets
  251. The Effect of “Opt-Out” Regulation on Access to Surgical Care for Urgent Cases in the United States
  252. Caroline Palmer and the History of Operating Room Management
  253. Constraints on the scheduling of urgent and emergency surgical cases: Surgeon, equipment, and anesthesiologist availability
  254. Growth in an Anesthesiologist- and Nurse Anesthetist-Supervised Sedation Nurse Program Using Propofol and Dexmedetomidine
  255. Influence of Data and Formulas on Trust in Information from Journal Articles in an Operating Room Management Course
  256. On the reciprocity of connections in weighted and unweighted networks
  257. Factors affecting pre-operative assessment times
  258. Work Habits Are Valid Components of Evaluations of Anesthesia Residents Based on Faculty Anesthesiologists’ Daily Written Comments About Residents
  259. Amnesia of the Operating Room in the B-Unaware and BAG-RECALL Clinical Trials
  260. Economic and Environmental Considerations During Low Fresh Gas Flow Volatile Agent Administration After Change to a Nonreactive Carbon Dioxide Absorbent
  261. Statistical analysis of differences in turnover times among operating theatres
  262. Decreasing the Hours That Anesthesiologists and Nurse Anesthetists Work Late by Making Decisions to Reduce the Hours of Over-Utilized Operating Room Time
  263. Comparing Policies for Case Scheduling Within 1 Day of Surgery by Markov Chain Models
  264. Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale for regional anesthesia
  265. Prolonged Operative Time to Extubation Is Not a Useful Metric for Comparing the Performance of Individual Anesthesia Providers
  266. Quantifying the Diversity and Similarity of Surgical Procedures Among Hospitals and Anesthesia Providers
  267. First Job Search of Residents in the United States
  268. Efficacy Outcome Measures for Procedural Sedation Clinical Trials in Adults
  269. Associated Roles of Perioperative Medical Directors and Anesthesia
  270. Anesthesia Workload Nationally During Regular Workdays and Weekends
  271. The “Fourth Mission”
  272. Case Sequencing of Diagnostic Imaging Studies Performed Under General Anesthesia or Monitored Anesthesia Care During Nights and Weekends
  273. Large Heterogeneity in Mean Durations of Labor Analgesia Among Hospitals Reporting to the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Anesthesia Quality Institute
  274. Observational study of prolonged times to tracheal extubation
  275. E-mail as the Appropriate Method of Communication for the Decision-Maker When Soliciting Advice for an Intellective Decision Task
  276. Influencing Anesthesia Provider Behavior Using Anesthesia Information Management System Data for Near Real-Time Alerts and Post Hoc Reports
  277. No Significant Association between Anesthesia Group Concentration and Private Insurer Payments in the United States
  278. Quality of Supervision as an Independent Contributor to an Anesthesiologist’s Individual Clinical Value
  279. Survey of the National Drug Shortage Effect on Anesthesia and Patient Safety
  280. Implications of National Anesthesia Workload on the Staffing of a Call Center
  281. Statistical Analysis of PACU Fast-Tracking Bypass
  282. Management Implications for the Perioperative Surgical Home Related to Inpatient Case Cancellations and Add-On Case Scheduling on the Day of Surgery
  283. Assessing and Comparing Anesthesiologists’ Performance on Mandated Metrics Using a Bayesian Approach
  284. Elective Endovascular Treatment of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
  285. Statistical analysis methods for meta-analysis of times to emergence
  286. Use of Historical Case Duration Data for Estimating the Duration of Future Cases
  287. Calculating the probability of random sampling for continuous variables in submitted or published randomised controlled trials
  288. Relative Risk of Prolonged Operative Times From Inconsistent Surgical Teams
  289. Reliability and Validity of Assessing Subspecialty Level of Faculty Anesthesiologists’ Supervision of Anesthesiology Residents
  290. Reliability and Validity of the Anesthesiologist Supervision Instrument When Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Provide Scores
  291. Anesthesia Residents’ Global (Departmental) Evaluation of Faculty Anesthesiologists’ Supervision Can Be Less Than Their Average Evaluations of Individual Anesthesiologists
  292. Anesthesiologist Staffing Considerations Consequent to the Temporal Distribution of Hypoxemic Episodes in the Postanesthesia Care Unit
  293. Deadly Heat
  294. Ophthalmologic Surgery Is Unique in Operating Room Management
  295. Bernoulli Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Control Charts for Monitoring of Anesthesiologists’ Performance in Supervising Anesthesia Residents and Nurse Anesthetists
  296. Influence of Provider Type (Nurse Anesthetist or Resident Physician), Staff Assignments, and Other Covariates on Daily Evaluations of Anesthesiologists’ Quality of Supervision
  297. High-quality operating room management research
  298. Scheduling for anesthesia at geographic locations remote from the operating room
  299. Relative Influence on Total Cancelled Operating Room Time from Patients Who Are Inpatients or Outpatients Preoperatively
  300. Strategies for Net Cost Reductions with the Expanded Role and Expertise of Anesthesiologists in the Perioperative Surgical Home
  301. Cognitive Outcome of Surgery
  302. Observed/expected ratio analysis for hospital surgical efficiency instead of data envelopment analysis
  303. Anesthesia Scholarship, Research, and Publication
  304. Applying Systematic Criteria for Type and Screen Based on Procedure’s Probability of Erythrocyte Transfusion
  305. Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale for general anaesthesia
  306. Use of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale in Portuguese
  307. Lack of Utility of a Decision Support System to Mitigate Delays in Admission from the Operating Room to the Postanesthesia Care Unit
  308. Increased Mean Time from End of Surgery to Operating Room Exit in a Historical Cohort of Cases with Prolonged Time to Extubation
  309. Difficulties and Challenges Associated with Literature Searches in Operating Room Management, Complete with Recommendations
  310. Review of Experimental Studies in Social Psychology of Small Groups When an Optimal Choice Exists and Application to Operating Room Management Decision-Making
  311. Rescheduling of Previously Cancelled Surgical Cases Does Not Increase Variability in Operating Room Workload When Cases Are Scheduled Based on Maximizing Efficiency of Use of Operating Room Time
  312. Cohort study of cases with prolonged tracheal extubation times to examine the relationship with duration of workday
  313. Case Cancellation Rates Measured by Surgical Service Differ Whether Based on the Number of Cases or the Number of Minutes Cancelled
  314. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test Used for Data That Are Not Normally Distributed
  315. Communication Latencies of Apple Push Notification Messages Relevant for Delivery of Time-Critical Information to Anesthesia Providers
  316. Explanation for the Near-Constant Mean Time Remaining in Surgical Cases Exceeding Their Estimated Duration, Necessary for Appropriate Display on Electronic White Boards
  317. Value of a Scheduled Duration Quantified in Terms of Equivalent Numbers of Historical Cases
  318. Research, Education, and Nonclinical Service Productivity of New Junior Anesthesia Faculty During a 2-Year Faculty Development Program
  319. A Behavioral Study of Daily Mean Turnover Times and First Case of the Day Start Tardiness
  320. Anesthesiology Residents’ and Nurse Anesthetists’ Perceptions of Effective Clinical Faculty Supervision by Anesthesiologists
  321. Determinants, Associations, and Psychometric Properties of Resident Assessments of Anesthesiologist Operating Room Supervision
  322. Monitoring Anesthesiologists’ and Anesthesiology Departments’ Managerial Performance
  323. Estimating Surgical Case Durations and Making Comparisons Among Facilities
  324. Choosing Which Practitioner Sees the Next Patient in the Preanesthesia Evaluation Clinic Based on the Relative Speeds of the Practitioner
  325. Communication Latencies of Wireless Devices Suitable for Time-Critical Messaging to Anesthesia Providers
  326. Role of Communication Systems in Coordinating Supervising Anesthesiologists’ Activities Outside of Operating Rooms
  327. Case Scenario Consistent with Lack of Knowledge and Psychological Bias
  328. Interpretation of the Association Between Frequency of Self-Reported Medical Errors and Faculty Supervision of Anesthesiology Residents
  329. Comparing the Cumulative Pain Patients Experience Waiting for Knee Arthroplasty to their Postoperative Pain
  330. Estimate of the Relative Risk of Succinylcholine for Triggering Malignant Hyperthermia
  331. Behavioral Interpretation of Absence of Hawthorne Effect for Turnover Times
  332. Descriptive Study of Case Scheduling and Cancellations Within 1 Week of the Day of Surgery
  333. Implications of Resolved Hypoxemia on the Utility of Desaturation Alerts Sent from an Anesthesia Decision Support System to Supervising Anesthesiologists
  334. Previous studies of statistical assessment of analgesic consumption
  335. Measure to Quantify the Influence of Time from End of Surgery to Tracheal Extubation on Operating Room Workflow
  336. Lack of Value of Scheduling Processes to Move Cases from a Heavily Used Main Campus to Other Facilities Within a Health Care System
  337. In Reply
  338. A Brief History of Evidence-Based Operating Room Management
  339. Comparison of alphabetical versus categorical display format for medication order entry in a simulated touch screen anesthesia information management system: an experiment in clinician-computer interaction in anesthesia
  340. Publication Bias, Retrospective Bias, and Reproducibility of Significant Results in Observational Studies
  341. Duration of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Outcome
  342. Systematic Criteria for Type and Screen Based on Procedureʼs Probability of Erythrocyte Transfusion
  343. Monitoring changes in individual surgeon’s workloads using anesthesia data
  344. Intrathecal Catheterization Influences Tolerance to Chronic Morphine in Rats
  345. Forecasting Preanesthesia Clinic Appointment Duration from the Electronic Medical Record Medication List
  346. Influence of Supervision Ratios by Anesthesiologists on First-case Starts and Critical Portions of Anesthetics
  347. Hours of cases to schedule to rarely have overrun
  348. The Timing of Staffing Decisions in Hospital Operating Rooms: Incorporating Workload Heterogeneity into the Newsvendor Problem
  349. Iowa satisfaction with anesthesia scale
  350. Rationale for Anesthesia Groups to Run Additional Flexible Operating Rooms for Multiple Surgeons Who Have Scheduled More than 8 Hours of Cases
  351. Importance of Appropriately Modeling Procedure and Duration in Logistic Regression Studies of Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality
  352. Korean translation and use of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale
  353. Analysis of Variance of Communication Latencies in Anesthesia
  354. Forecasting the economic benefit of reducing non-operative time
  355. Patients' Perspective on Full Disclosure and Informed Consent Regarding Postoperative Visual Loss Associated With Spinal Surgery in the Prone Position
  356. Mean Arterial Pressures Bracketing Prolonged Monitoring Interruptions Have Negligible Systematic Differences from Matched Controls Without Such Gaps
  357. Checklist for Statistical Topics in Anesthesia & Analgesia Reviews
  358. In Response
  359. Multicenter Assessment of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale, an Instrument that Measures Patient Satisfaction with Monitored Anesthesia Care
  360. Needs Assessment for Business Strategies of Anesthesiology Groupsʼ Practices
  361. National Incidence of Use of Monitored Anesthesia Care
  362. Meta-analysis of desflurane and propofol average times and variability in times to extubation and following commands
  363. Psychological biases and their impact on operating room efficiency
  364. Analysis of Interventions Influencing or Reducing Patient Waiting While Stratifying by Surgical Procedure
  365. Surgeonsʼ and Anesthesiologistsʼ Perceptions of Turnover Times
  366. Event-based knowledge elicitation of operating room management decision-making using scenarios adapted from information systems data
  367. Survey Study of Anesthesiologistsʼ and Surgeonsʼ Ordering of Unnecessary Preoperative Laboratory Tests
  368. Balancing cost-cutting and safety in the OR
  369. Application of an Online Reference for Reviewing Basic Statistical Principles of Operating Room Management
  370. Can an Acute Pain Service Be Cost-Effective?
  371. Impact of Anesthesiologists on the Incidence of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean in the United States: Role of Anesthesia Availability, Productivity, Guidelines, and Patient Safety
  372. Fasting guidelines need to consider that cases may start earlier than scheduled
  373. The Limited Value of Sequencing Cases Based on Their Probability of Cancellation
  374. Analysis of Operating Room Allocations to Optimize Scheduling of Specialty Rotations for Anesthesia Trainees
  375. Control Chart Monitoring of the Numbers of Cases Waiting When Anesthesiologists Do Not Bring in Members of Call Team
  376. Review of Behavioral Operations Experimental Studies of Newsvendor Problems for Operating Room Management
  377. Letter to Editor: Previous research in operating room scheduling and staffing
  378. Meta-Analysis of Average and Variability of Time to Extubation Comparing Isoflurane with Desflurane or Isoflurane with Sevoflurane
  379. Influence of Procedure Classification on Process Variability and Parameter Uncertainty of Surgical Case Durations
  380. Optimizing the Arrival, Waiting, and NPO Times of Children on the Day of Pediatric Endoscopy Procedures
  381. Statistical Modeling of Average and Variability of Time to Extubation for Meta-Analysis Comparing Desflurane to Sevoflurane
  382. Use of State Discharge Abstract Data to Identify Hospitals Performing Similar Types of Operative Procedures
  383. Prospective Trial of Thoracic and Spine Surgeons’ Updating of Their Estimated Case Durations at the Start of Cases
  384. Numerous studies have considered opportunity costs of operating time
  385. Should Anesthesia Groups Advocate Funding of Clinics and Scheduling Systems to Increase Operating Room Workload?
  386. Forecasting and Perception of Average and Latest Hours Worked by On-Call Anesthesiologists
  387. Numbers of Simultaneous Turnovers Calculated from Anesthesia or Operating Room Information Management System Data
  388. Reducing Tardiness from Scheduled Start Times by Making Adjustments to the Operating Room Schedule
  389. Lack of Sensitivity of Staffing for 8-Hour Sessions to Standard Deviation in Daily Actual Hours of Operating Room Time Used for Surgeons with Long Queues
  390. Influence of the Operating Room Schedule on Tardiness from Scheduled Start Times
  391. Incentive Payments to Academic Anesthesiologists for Late Afternoon Work Did Not Influence Turnover Times
  392. Growth Rates in Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging and Sedation
  393. Reducing surgical patient fasting times
  394. Lessons from Evidence-Based Operating Room Management in Balancing the Needs for Efficient, Effective and Ethical Healthcare
  395. Typical Savings from Each Minute Reduction in Tardy First Case of the Day Starts
  396. Both Bias and Lack of Knowledge Influence Organizational Focus on First Case of the Day Starts
  397. Implications of Event Entry Latency on Anesthesia Information Management Decision Support Systems
  398. Automatic Updating of Times Remaining in Surgical Cases Using Bayesian Analysis of Historical Case Duration Data and “Instant Messaging” Updates from Anesthesia Providers
  399. Operational research applied to health services 2007 special issue
  400. Case Scheduling Preferences of One Surgeonʼs Cataract Surgery Patients
  401. Operating Room Nursing Directors’ Influence on Anesthesia Group Operating Room Productivity
  402. Operative Time and Other Outcomes of the Electrothermal Bipolar Vessel Sealing System (LigaSure™) Versus Other Methods for Surgical Hemostasis: A Meta-Analysis
  403. Automated Correction of Room Location Errors in Anesthesia Information Management Systems
  404. Systematic Review of General Thoracic Surgery Articles to Identify Predictors of Operating Room Case Durations
  405. Long-Term Forecasting of Anesthesia Workload in Operating Rooms from Changes in a Hospital’s Local Population Can Be Inaccurate
  406. Quotation from Article about Anesthesia Providers’ Activities during Ophthalmology Cases
  407. Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty
  408. The Use of Distributed Displays of Operating Room Video When Real-Time Occupancy Status Was Available
  409. Predicting Orthopedic Surgeons’ Preferences for Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Their Patients
  410. Calculating Institutional Support That Benefits Both the Anesthesia Group and Hospital
  411. Tactical Increases in Operating Room Block Time for Capacity Planning Should Not Be Based on Utilization
  412. Coordination of Appointments for Anesthesia Care Outside of Operating Rooms Using an Enterprise-Wide Scheduling System
  413. Craniocervical Motion during Direct Laryngoscopy and Orotracheal Intubation with the Macintosh and Miller Blades
  414. Allocative efficiency vs technical efficiency in operating room management
  415. Patient Waiting Time Matters When Filling a Pod of Operating Rooms
  416. Why Calculating PACU Staffing Is So Hard and Why/How Operations Research Specialists Can Help
  417. Detecting Diversion of Anesthetic Drugs by Providers
  418. Green Mountain Boys Would Be Disappointed
  419. Reliability of a Telephone-Based Glasgow Outcome Scale Assessment Using a Structured Interview in a Heterogenous Population of Patients and Examiners
  420. A Psychological Basis for Anesthesiologists??? Operating Room Managerial Decision-Making on the Day of Surgery
  421. Operating Room Managerial Decision-Making on the Day of Surgery With and Without Computer Recommendations and Status Displays
  422. Measuring the Frequency of Delays in Admission into the PACU
  423. An Observational Study of Surgeons?? Sequencing of Cases and Its Impact on Postanesthesia Care Unit and Holding Area Staffing Requirements at Hospitals
  424. A Simple Method for Deciding When Patients Should Be Ready on the Day of Surgery Without Procedure-Specific Data
  425. Operating Room Efficiency in the National Health Service
  426. Bed Management Displays to Optimize Patient Flow From the OR to the PACU
  427. Application of a Similarity Index to State Discharge Abstract Data to Identify Opportunities for Growth of Surgical and Anesthesia Practices
  428. Identification of systematic underestimation (bias) of case durations during case scheduling would not markedly reduce overutilized operating room time
  429. Reductions in non-operative times, not increases in operating room efficiency
  430. Tactical Increases in Operating Room Block Time Based on Financial Data and Market Growth Estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis
  431. Impact on Operating Room Efficiency of Reducing Turnover Times and Anesthesia-Controlled Times
  432. Prior Work Using Meta-Analyses of Operative Times Between Regional and General Anesthesia
  433. Mean operating room times differ by 50% among hospitals in different countries for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and lung lobectomy
  434. The Impact of Service-Specific Staffing, Case Scheduling, Turnovers, and First-Case Starts on Anesthesia Group and Operating Room Productivity: A Tutorial Using Data from an Australian Hospital
  435. Holiday and Weekend Operating Room On-Call Staffing Requirements
  436. Observational study of operating room times for knee and hip replacement surgery at nine U.S. community hospitals
  437. Prior Research in Measuring Financial Differences Among Surgical Specialties and Using Such Differences in Decision Making
  438. Mean operating room times differ by 50% among hospitals in different countries for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and lung lobectomy
  439. Economic, Educational, and Policy Perspectives on the Preincision Operating Room Period
  440. Impact of Average Patient Acuity on Staffing of the Phase I PACU
  441. Should Evaluation of Surgeons Based on Total Hospital Costs Have Considered Operating Room Times?
  442. Staffing and case scheduling for anesthesia in geographically dispersed locations outside of operating rooms
  443. The Elephant in the Operating Room
  444. Predicting Anesthesia Times for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiological Procedures
  445. A Markov computer simulation model of the economics of neuromuscular blockade in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
  446. Impact of surgical sequencing on post anesthesia care unit staffing
  447. DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF PERIOPERATIVE PROCESSES: A MODELING AND VISUALIZATION PARADIGM
  448. MONITORING WAITING TIMES (MEAN TARDINESS) ON THE DAY OF ELECTIVE SURGERY
  449. Methods for Understanding Super-Efficient Data Envelopment Analysis Results with an Application to Hospital Inpatient Surgery
  450. Validity and usefulness of a method to monitor surgical services’ average bias in scheduled case durations
  451. An Algorithm for Processing Vital Sign Monitoring Data to Remotely Identify Operating Room Occupancy in Real-Time
  452. Validation of Statistical Methods to Compare Cancellation Rates on the Day of Surgery
  453. Deciding Whether Your Hospital Can Apply Clinical Trial Results of Strategies to Increase Productivity by Reducing Anesthesia and Turnover Times
  454. Financial Implications of a Hospital’s Specialization in Rare Physiologically Complex Surgical Procedures
  455. Estimating the Incidence of Prolonged Turnover Times and Delays by Time of Day
  456. Tactical Decision Making for Selective Expansion of Operating Room Resources Incorporating Financial Criteria and Uncertainty in Subspecialties?? Future Workloads
  457. Quantifying Effect of a Hospital’s Caseload for a Surgical Specialty on That of Another Hospital Using Multi-Attribute Market Segments
  458. Operating room efficiency and scheduling
  459. Strategies to reduce delays in admission into a postanesthesia care unit from operating rooms
  460. Zuweisung und Planung von Operationsraumkapazit�ten
  461. Criteria for identification of comprehensive pediatric hospitals and referral regions
  462. Making Management Decisions on the Day of Surgery Based on Operating Room Efficiency and Patient Waiting Times
  463. Data Envelopment Analysis to Determine by How Much Hospitals Can Increase Elective Inpatient Surgical Workload for Each Specialty
  464. Market Capture of Inpatient Perioperative Services Using DEA
  465. The Necessity of Guidelines for Any Workday or Four Weeks Systems for Allocating OR Times
  466. Using length of stay data from a hospital to evaluate whether limiting elective surgery at the hospital is an inappropriate decision
  467. Review of operational decision making before the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency
  468. Differentiating among Hospitals Performing Physiologically Complex Operative Procedures in the Elderly
  469. Financial Disclosure
  470. Impact of Reducing Turnover Times on Staffing Costs
  471. When to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Operating Room Efficiency
  472. Quantifying Net Staffing Costs Due to Longer-than-average Surgical Case Durations
  473. Operating room utilization: information management systems
  474. Use of Operating Room Information System Data to Predict the Impact of Reducing Turnover Times on Staffing Costs
  475. Use of Discharge Abstract Databases to Differentiate among Pediatric Hospitals Based on Operative Procedures
  476. Managing Risk and Expected Financial Return from Selective Expansion of Operating Room Capacity: Mean-Variance Analysis of a Hospital???s Portfolio of Surgeons
  477. Scheduling of cases in an ambulatory center
  478. Operating Room Utilization Alone Is Not an Accurate Metric for the Allocation of Operating Room Block Time to Individual Surgeons with Low Caseloads
  479. Physicians’ perceptions of minimum time that should be saved to move a surgical case from one operating room to another: internet−based survey of the membership of the association of anesthesia clinical directors (aacd)
  480. Labor Costs Incurred by Anesthesiology Groups Because of Operating Rooms Not Being Allocated and Cases Not Being Scheduled to Maximize Operating Room Efficiency
  481. Optimizing Second Shift OR Staffing
  482. How to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Efficiency: Predicting Which Surgical Service Will Have the Most Underutilized Operating Room Time
  483. Uncertainty in Knowing the Operating Rooms in Which Cases Were Performed Has Little Effect on Operating Room Allocations or Efficiency
  484. Iliohypogastric-ilioinguinal peripheral nerve block for post-Cesarean delivery analgesia decreases morphine use but not opioid-related side effects
  485. Sampling Error Can Significantly Affect Measured Hospital Financial Performance of Surgeons and Resulting Operating Room Time Allocations
  486. Development of an Appropriate List of Surgical Procedures of a Specified Maximum Anesthetic Complexity to Be Performed at a New Ambulatory Surgery Facility
  487. Changing Allocations of Operating Room Time From a System Based on Historical Utilization to One Where the Aim is to Schedule as Many Surgical Cases as Possible
  488. What Sample Sizes are Required for Pooling Surgical Case Durations among Facilities to Decrease the Incidence of Procedures with Little Historical Data?
  489. How to Schedule Elective Surgical Cases into Specific Operating Rooms to Maximize the Efficiency of Use of Operating Room Time
  490. Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify PACU staffing to minimize delays in admission from ORs
  491. Statistical Power Analysis to Estimate How Many Months of Data Are Required to Identify Operating Room Staffing Solutions to Reduce Labor Costs and Increase Productivity
  492. Use of Linear Programming to Estimate Impact of Changes in a Hospitalʼs Operating Room Time Allocation on Perioperative Variable Costs
  493. Calculating a Potential Increase in Hospital Margin for Elective Surgery by Changing Operating Room Time Allocations or Increasing Nursing Staffing to Permit Completion of More Cases: A Case Study
  494. What are the Most Important Risk Factors for a Patient’s Developing Intraoperative Hypothermia?
  495. Cost Implications of Various Operating Room Scheduling Strategies
  496. Brain Expression of Inducible Cyclooxygenase 2 Messenger RNA in Rats Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  497. Reducing family members’ anxiety while waiting on the day of surgery: systematic review of studies and implications of HIPAA health information privacy rules
  498. Weekend Operating Room On Call Staffing Requirements
  499. Hospital Profitability per Hour of Operating Room Time Can Vary Among Surgeons
  500. A Statistical Analysis of Weekday Operating Room Anesthesia Group Staffing Costs at Nine Independently Managed Surgical Suites
  501. Statistical Analysis by Monte-Carlo Simulation of the Impact of Administrative and Medical Delays in Discharge from the Postanesthesia Care Unit on Total Patient Care Hours
  502. The Impact on Revenue of Increasing Patient Volume at Surgical Suites with Relatively High Operating Room Utilization
  503. Scheduling A Delay Between Different Surgeons’ Cases in the Same Operating Room on the Same Day Using Upper Prediction Bounds for Case Durations
  504. Statistical Analysis of Postanesthesia Care Unit Staffing at a Surgical Suite with Frequent Delays in Admission from the Operating Room—A Case Study
  505. Cost Identification Analysis for Succinylcholine
  506. Optimal number of beds and occupancy to minimize staffing costs in an obstetrical unit?
  507. The Lack of Systematic Month-to-Month Variation Over One-Year Periods in Ambulatory Surgery Caseload —Application to Anesthesia Staffing
  508. 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
  509. Statistical Method for Predicting When Patients Should Be Ready on the Day of Surgery
  510. Enterprise-Wide Patient Scheduling Information Systems to Coordinate Surgical Clinic and Operating Room Scheduling Can Impair Operating Room Efficiency
  511. Room I, 10/17/2000 2: 00 PM - 4: 00 PM (PS) Strategy to Decide Whether to Move the Last Case of the Day in an Operating Room to Another Empty Operating Room to Decrease Overtime Costs 
  512. OR Scheduling Algorithms
  513. What Is the Relative Frequency of Uncommon Ambulatory Surgery Procedures Performed in the United States with an Anesthesia Provider?
  514. Sequencing Cases in the Operating Room: Predicting Whether One Surgical Case will Last Longer than Another
  515. Effect of Compensation and Patient Scheduling on OR Labor Costs
  516. Acute cord occlusion increases blood ionized magnesium concentration in preterm fetal sheep during maternal magnesium sulfate exposure
  517. Estimating the Duration of a Case When the Surgeon Has Not Recently Scheduled the Procedure at the Surgical Suite
  518. Forecasting Surgical Groups’ Total Hours of Elective Cases for Allocation of Block Time
  519. Relying solely on historical surgical times to estimate accurately future surgical times is unlikely to reduce the average length of time cases finish late
  520. Which Algorithm for Scheduling Add-on Elective Cases Maximizes Operating Room Utilization?
  521. A Strategy for Deciding Operating Room Assignments for Second-Shift Anesthetists
  522. Design of Appointment Systems for Preanesthesia Evaluation Clinics to Minimize Patient Waiting Times: A Review of Computer Simulation and Patient Survey Studies
  523. What can the postanesthesiacare unit manager do to decrease costs in the postanesthesia care unit?
  524. Prediction Bounds for Case Scheduling
  525. An Operating Room Scheduling Strategy to Maximize the Use of Operating Room Block Time
  526. Statistical Method to Evaluate Management Strategies to Decrease Variability in Operating Room Utilization
  527. Brain Injury after Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit as Determined by Triphenyltetrazolium Staining
  528. Computer Simulation to Determine How Rapid Anesthetic Recovery Protocols to Decrease the Time for Emergence or Increase the Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit Bypass Rate Affect Staffing of an Ambulatory Surgery Center
  529. Bolus Maternal Cocaine Administration Does Not Produce a Large Increase in Fetal Sheep Cerebral Cortical Glutamate Concentration
  530. Sympathetic Ganglionic Blockade Masks Beneficial Effect of Isoflurane on Histologic Outcome from Near-complete Forebrain Ischemia in the Rat
  531. Decrease in Case Duration Required to Complete an Additional Case During Regularly Scheduled Hours in an Operating Room Suite
  532. Computer simulation of changes in nursing productivity from early tracheal extubation of coronary artery bypass graft patients
  533. Method to Assist in the Scheduling of Add-on Surgical Cases-Upper Prediction Bounds for Surgical Case Durations Based on the Log-normal Distribution
  534. Hospital profitability for a surgeon’s common procedures predicts the surgeon’s overall profitability for the hospital
  535. Is Lack of Statistical Power Always Evidence of Lack of Effect?
  536. Statistical Analysis of Total Labor Pain Using the Visual Analog Scale and Application to Studies of Analgesic Effectiveness During Childbirth
  537. Differential Effects of Anesthetic Agents on Outcome from Near-complete but Not Incomplete Global Ischemia in the Rat
  538. Relative Neuroprotective Effects of Dizocilpine and Isoflurane During Focal Cerebral Ischemia in the Rat
  539. Cerebrovascular Relaxation Responses to Endothelium-dependent and -independent Vasodilators after Normothermic and Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in the Rabbit
  540. A Method to Compare Costs of Drugs and Supplies among Anesthesia Providers
  541. Interactions between Hypothermia and the Latency to Ischemic Depolarization
  542. The Effect of a Perioperative Clinical Pathway for Knee Replacement Surgery on Hospital Costs
  543. Recovery of Evoked Potential Amplitude after Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit
  544. Chronic hypoxemia causes extracellular glutamate concentration to increase in the cerebral cortex of the near-term fetal sheep
  545. Application of Practice Guidelines to Anesthesiology
  546. Comparison of the Effects of Propofol and Pentobarbital on Neurologic Outcome and Cerebral Infarct Size after Temporary Focal Ischemia in the Rat
  547. Development of a Measure of Patient Satisfaction with Monitored Anesthesia Care
  548. High-Dose Fentanyl Does Not Adversely Affect Outcome from Forebrain Ischemia in the Rat
  549. Doxycycline Reduces Early Neurologic Impairment after Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit
  550. Effect of haemoglobin concentration on brain oxygenation in focal stroke: a mathematical modelling study
  551. Ethanol-Induced Changes in Prostaglandin E Concentration in the Intact Cerebral Cortex of Preterm and Near-term Fetal Sheep
  552. Does Early Extubation ("Fast-tracking") of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients Truly Decrease Perioperative Costs?
  553. Research Synthesis of Controlled Studies Evaluating the Effect of Hypocapnia and Airway Protection on Cerebral Outcome
  554. Recommendations for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Cerebral Air Embolism Based on a Mathematical Model of Bubble Absorption
  555. The Brain Uses Mostly Dissolved Oxygen During Profoundly Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  556. Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Mathematical Modeling of Acetylcholine Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics in Sinus Node Neuroeffector Junctions
  557. A Statistical Method for Predicting Postanesthesia Care Unit Staffing Needs
  558. Quantification of phase I postanesthesia nursing activities in the phase II postanesthesia care unit
  559. Measuring productivity of the phase I postanesthesia care unit
  560. Applications of Information Systems to Operating Room Scheduling
  561. Flumazenil does not affect the increase in rat hippocampal extracellular glutamate concentration produced during thioacetamide-induced hepatic encephalopathy
  562. The Effects of Plasma and Brain Magnesium Concentrations on Lidocaine-Induced Seizures in the Rat
  563. Estimate of the maximum absorption rate of microscopic arterial air emboli after entry into the arterial circulation during cardiac surgery
  564. Surgical ICU Underutilization Does not Significantly Discourage Discharge
  565. Somatosensory Evoked Potentials Correlate With Neurological Outcome in Rabbits Undergoing Cerebral Air Embolism
  566. Reply
  567. Application of cost-utility and quality-adjusted life years analyses to monitored anesthesia care for sedation only
  568. Biomechanical evaluation of Caspar and Cervical Spine Locking Plate systems in a cadaveric model
  569. Electroencephalographic Burst Suppression Is Not Required to Elicit Maximal Neuroprotection from Pentobarbital in a Rat Model of Focal Cerebral Ischemia
  570. Rapid Rewarming Causes an Increase in the Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen that Is Temporarily Unmatched by Cerebral Blood Flow
  571. Ethanol increases uterine blood flow and fetal arterial blood oxygen tension in the near-term pregnant ewe
  572. Cerebral Oxygenation during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  573. Application of Prediction Levels to OR Scheduling
  574. Heparin Reduces Neurological Impairment After Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit
  575. Theoretical Assessment of Normobaric Oxygen Therapy to Treat Pneumocephalus
  576. Decreases in Anesthesia-Controlled Time Cannot Permit One Additional Surgical Operation to Be Reliably Scheduled During the Workday
  577. Diaspirin Cross-linked Hemoglobin Does Not Increase Brain Oxygen Consumption during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Rabbits
  578. Dose-Dependent Effects of Acute In Vivo Ethanol Exposure on Extracellular Glutamate Concentration in the Cerebral Cortex of the Near-Term Fetal Sheep
  579. The Cost Efficacy of Hypothetically Eliminating Adverse Anesthetic Outcomes from High-Risk, but Neither Low- nor Moderate-Risk, Surgical Operations
  580. Theoretical Analysis of Cerebral Venous Blood Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation as an Index of Cerebral Oxygenation during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  581. Comparisons between Desflurane and Isoflurane or Propofol on Time to Following Commands and Time to Discharge
  582. Interactions between NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptor antagonists during halothane anesthesia in the rat
  583. Reply
  584. Analysis of Statistical Tests to Compare Visual Analog Scale Measurements among Groups
  585. Glycine Receptor Antagonism
  586. Temporal Thresholds for Hyperglycemia-Augmented Ischemic Brain Damage in Rats
  587. pH-Stat Management Reduces the Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen during Profound Hypothermia (17 degrees Celsius)
  588. Estimating Brain Temperature during Hypothermia
  589. Glutamate Release from the Ovine Fetal Brain during Maternal Hemorrhage
  590. Statistical analysis of drug interactions in anesthesia
  591. Analysis of Strategies to Decrease Postanesthesia Care Unit Costs
  592. Mathematical analysis of haemodilution's direct effect on rate of brain cooling during cardiopulmonary bypass
  593. Pulsatile Versus Nonpulsatile Flow
  594. Blood warms as it flows retrograde from a femoral cannulation site to the carotid artery during cardiopulmonary bypass
  595. Minimum Alveolar Concentration for Halothane in the Rat Is Resistant to Effects of Forebrain Ischemia and Reperfusion
  596. Analysis of Statistical Tests to Compare Doses of Analgesics among Groups
  597. Theoretical Analysis Predicts that Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Does Not Accurately Measure Efferent Vagal Activity During Anesthesia
  598. Pulsatile Versus Nonpulsatile Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  599. Computer simulation of brain cooling during cardiopulmonary bypass
  600. Hypothermia Acid-Base Management Does Not Affect Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen at 27° C
  601. Analysis of vagally induced sinus arrhythmias
  602. Central Nervous System Toxicity of Local Anesthetic Mixtures in the Rat
  603. Brain Blood Flow and Metabolism Do Not Decrease at Stable Brain Temperature during Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Rabbits
  604. Cerebral Blood Flow Response to Paco2 during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Rabbits
  605. Mathematical model of cellular basis for the respiratory sinus arrhythmia
  606. Simulation of the diffusion of acetylcholine in the neuroeffector junctions of the sinus node
  607. Mathematical model of the changes in heart rate elicited by vagal stimulation.
  608. A statistical measure of internal consistency
  609. Influence of staffing and scheduling on operating room productivity
  610. Evaluating the Efficiency of Hospitals’ Perioperative Services Using Dea
  611. Influence of Operating Room Staffing and Scheduling on Operating Room Productivity