Abstract:Background Appropriate documentation of critical care services, including key time-based parameters, is critical to accurate severity of illness metrics and proper reimbursement. Documentation of time-based elements for critical care services performed in emergency departments (ED) remains inconsistent. We integrated electronic medical record and real-time location system (RTLS)-derived data to augment quality improvement methodology.
Objective We aimed to increase the proportion of patient encounter… Show more
Efficient use of operating theaters would benefit hospitals financially as well
as reducing the waiting time required for surgery. The aim of this study is to determine the
frequency of use of the operating theatres and the amount of waste time in the use of those
rooms for the different surgical branches. For this study, ”intelligent transmitters with low
energy consumption” will be placed on the operating tables, the patient’s stretcher and on
the all working staff. Intelligent transmitters with low energy consumption will communicate
over ISM (Industrial Scientific Medical) band. By analyzing the data obtained after 6 months
period; the workload of the operation theatres will be determined for the different surgical
branches. With the system developed in this study, operating theater efficiency and personnel
performance were examined by calculating ”insufficient time” (planned time - busy time) or
”overused time” (participated time - planned time). The results obtained with the approach in
this study showed that 23.7% of the time was saved. Since the average two-year number of
surgeries at Trakya University Research Hospital is around 15,000, this improvement could
boost clinical quality improvement initiatives by increasing the more efficient use of operating
rooms.
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