ArticleJournal of medical ethics2022
Operating room time as a limited resource: ethical considerations for allocation.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Impact of Extended Procedure Duration on Nasal Morbidity after Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Resection of Pituitary Macroadenomas.Journal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base · 2026Article
- Allocating operating room time in orthopaedic trauma: a survey in medical ethics.Journal of public health (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Ethics in Global Plastic Surgery Missions.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2024Article
- Enhancing Operating Room Efficiency: The Impact of Computational Algorithms on Surgical Scheduling and Team Dynamics.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Surgical waitlist management: Perspectives from surgeons on surgical prioritization at a paediatric hospital.Paediatrics & child health · 2024Article
- Interdisciplinary Ethics Certificate Program for Graduate Medical Education Trainees.Journal of graduate medical education · 2021Article
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Abstract
Scheduling surgical procedures among operating rooms (ORs) is mistakenly regarded as merely a tedious administrative task. However, the growing demand for surgical care and finite hours in a day qualify OR time as a limited resource. Accordingly, the objective of this manuscript is to reframe the process of OR scheduling as an ethical dilemma of allocating scarce medical resources. Recommendations for ethical allocation of OR time-based on both familiar and novel ethical values-are provided for healthcare institutions and individual surgeons.
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