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Room ready |
Time when the room is cleaned and supplies and equipment necessary
for beginning of next case are present |
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Start time |
Patient in room time |
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Preparation completed |
Time at which prepping and draping have been completed and patient
is ready for the procedure or surgery to start |
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Case time |
Time from room setup start to room cleanup finished. This definition
includes all the time which a given procedure requires an OR. It allows for the
different duration of room setup and room cleanup times that occur because of the
varying supply and equipment
needs for a particular procedure |
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Turnover time |
Time from prior patient out of room to succeeding patient in
room for sequentially scheduled cases |
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Resource hours |
Total number of hours scheduled to be available for performance
of procedures (i.e., the sum of all available block time and open time) |
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Block time |
Hours of OR time reserved for a given service or surgeon. Within
a defined cutoff period (e.g., 72 hours prior to day of surgery); this is time into
which only the given service may schedule |
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Open time |
Hours of OR time not reserved for any particular service, into
which any service or surgeon may schedule according to the rules established by the
given institution |
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Raw utilization |
For the system as a whole, this is the percent of time that patients
are in the room during Resource Hours. For an individual service, this is the percent
of its block time during which it has a patient in the OR |
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Adjusted percentage |
(in-own block hours plus outside-own block hours × 100/block
time) |
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Service utilization |
This measures the percentage of time a service utilizes its block
time during Resource Hours. It is adjusted compared to Raw Utilization, in that
it gives a service "credit" for the time necessary to set up and clean up a room,
during which time a patient cannot be in the room. It may exceed 100% because of
the inclusion of cases performed during Resource Hours that are outside-own block
hours |
