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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2020

Clinical and Nonclinical Effects on Operative Duration: Evidence from a Database on Thoracic Surgery.

Jin Wang, Javier Cabrera, Kwok-Leung Tsui, Hainan Guo, Monique Bakker, John B Kostis

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Jin WangInstitute of Physical Internet, School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4047-4297
Javier CabreraDepartment of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Kwok-Leung TsuiSchool of Data Science, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Hainan GuoResearch Institute of Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management, College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
Monique BakkerSchool of Data Science, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
John B KostisCardiovascular Institute, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08904, USA.
City University of Hong Kong · HKRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USJinan University · CNShenzhen University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Due to the high maintenance costs, it is critical to make full use of operating rooms (ORs). Operative duration is an important factor that guides research on surgery scheduling. Clinical effects, for example, surgery type, rationally influences operative duration. In this study, we also investigate whether the planning and scheduling decisions in ORs influence the operative duration. Methods: For our study, we collected and reviewed data on 2,451 thoracic operations from a large hospital in China. The study was conducted over a period of 34 months. Linear and nonlinear regression models were used to detect the effects on the duration of the operations. We have also examined interactions between the factors. Results: Operative duration decreased with the number of operations a surgeon performed in a day ( Conclusions: Operative duration was affected not only due to clinical effects but also some nonclinical effects. Scheduling decisions significantly influenced operative duration.

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Appointments and SchedulesThoracic SurgeryAdultChinaDatabases, FactualEfficiency, OrganizationalFemaleHumansLinear ModelsMaleMiddle AgedOperating RoomsTime FactorsWorkload

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PMID32104558
PMCPMC7035554
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