Background In the changing health care environment, health systems, hospitals, and health
care providers must focus on improving efficiency to meet an increasing demand for high …

Operating rooms are considered a significant revenue source, as well as the main source of
waste and cost, among the hospital's departments. Any cost savings in operating rooms will …

Objectives. To determine the carbon footprint of various sustainability interventions used for
laparoscopic hysterectomy. Methods. We designed interventions for laparoscopic …

Abstract Purpose of Review Operating rooms are critical financial centers for hospital
systems, with surgical care representing about a third of all health care spending. However …

This paper is a comprehensive survey of datasets for surgical tool detection and related
surgical data science and machine learning techniques and algorithms. The survey offers a …

Background Health care spending in the US remains excessively high. Aside from
complicated, large-scale efforts at health care cost reduction, there are still relatively simple …

Background Operating room efficiency can be compromised because of surgical instrument
processing delays. We observed that many instruments in a standardized tray were not …

Background The quality of instruments and surgical expertise in minimally invasive surgery
has developed markedly in the last two decades. Attention is now being turned to ways to …

Climate change is among the most pressing global threats. Action now and in the coming
decades is critical. Rising temperatures exacerbate the frequency and intensity of extreme …

Operating Rooms (ORs) generate the largest revenues and losses in a hospital. Without the
prompt supply of sterile surgical trays from the Sterile Processing Department (SPD), the OR …