Background Identifying mechanisms to improve provider compliance with quality metrics is a
common goal across medical disciplines. Nudge interventions are minimally invasive …

Increased healthcare costs and diminishing returns have prompted healthcare
administrators to address budget allocations to alleviate institutional costs. Current …

Operating room (OR) turnover time (TT) has a broad and significant impact on hospital
administrators, providers, staff and patients. Our objective was to identify current problems in …

The balance between reducing costs and inefficiencies with that of patient safety is a
challenging problem faced in the operating room suite. An ongoing challenge is the creation …

Background Primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is one of the most commonly performed
procedures at US hospitals. Surgeons are typically asked to estimate surgical control time …

Optimization of operating room (OR) resources and costs require accurate estimations of
procedure times. In some institutions, surgeons are asked to predict their surgical control …

On time start of the first case of the day is an important operating room (OR) efficiency metric,
in which delays can have effects throughout the day. Although previous studies have …

Background Health care disparity persists despite vigorous countermeasures. Clinician
performance is paramount for equitable care processes and outcomes. However, precise …

Background Commonly used general anesthetics are considered to be neurotoxic to the
developing rodent brain, leading to poor long‐term outcome. However, it is unclear whether …

There is a growing emphasis on both cost containment and better quality health care. The
creation of better methods for alerting providers and their departments to the costs …