Practical Operating Theatre Management - Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience

Introduction and scope of the book; Defining 'efficiency'; Defining 'productivity'; Case scheduling; Capacity planning; Staffing and contracts; Theater finances; Preoperative patient preparation; Operating theatre management in New Zealand - a case study of applying efficiency principles at Waikato Public Hospital; Operating theatre management in Japan; Operating theatre management in two european nations - the Netherlands and Switzerland; Operating theatre management in Australia; Operating theatre management in the United States; Safety in operating theatres; A personal overview

Distilling the ideas central to managing operating theatres, this book provides a practical and easy to use toolkit to improve theatre efficiency and patient outcomes. It advocates using time as the key measurement and proposes a new norm of operating theatre management based on rational, data-driven principles. Notions of 'efficiency' and 'scheduling' are clearly defined, and a scheduling toolkit available to download accompanies the work.