Hospital operating theatres are a critical but costly resource in healthcare processes. Their
efficiency and utilisation impact upon hospital finances, clinical effectiveness and patient …

Introducing Lean management (LM) enables the surgical process to reach considerably
high levels of performance and efficiency, in addition to increased patient safety and …

Refers to the widely experienced and appreciated difficulties in scheduling hospital
operating theatres to make effective use of resources, and to avoid delays and overruns that …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase efficiency in ORs without affecting quality of
care by improving the workflow processes. Administrative processes independent of the …

Objective The objective of this study was to assess whether an intervention on process
efficiency using the Lean methodology leads to improved utilization of the operating room …

Operating room (OR) efficiency continues to be a high priority for hospitals. In this context the
concept of benchmarking has gained increasing importance as a means to improve OR …

Objectives To examine the effectiveness of a “systems” approach using Lean methodology
to improve surgical care, as part of a programme of studies investigating possible synergy …

Background Maximizing the utilization of the operating room suite by safely and efficiently
changing over patients is an opportunity to deliver more value to patients and be more …

Hospital operating rooms are experiencing higher costs and less available capacity, yet they
typically generate the highest returns of all hospital departments. In the case study described …

Background The decision to optimize the processes in the operating tract was based on two
factors: competition among clinics and a desire to optimize the use of available resources …