Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23883490›Full record

ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2013

Identification and use of operating room efficiency indicators: the problem of definition.

Tamas Fixler, James G Wright

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Trial
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Improving Operating Room Efficiency.Current urology reports · 2019
    Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Impact of the Health Transformation Plan on the Number of Surgical Operations and Their Cancelation.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tamas FixlerIBM Canada Ltd, Toronto, Ont. Tamas.Fixler@ge.com
James G Wright

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Efficiency, OrganizationalAppointments and SchedulesCanadaHumansOperating RoomsOperative TimePersonnel Staffing and SchedulingSurgery Department, HospitalTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID23883490
PMCPMC3728239

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.