
Practical Operating Theatre Management
Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience
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Practical Operating Theatre Management
Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience
About this book
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. The book's easy to use format supports managers in list planning, performance monitoring and demand-capacity matching while considering limited budgets and resources. It includes contributions from around the world, demonstrating the global application of its core approach. Aimed primarily at operating theatre managers, this book will also interest consultants, senior trainees, nurses and administrators who are involved in the daily running of the operating theatre and/or want to develop their leadership/managerial skills.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the Author
- Chapter 1 Introduction and Scope of the Book
- Chapter 2 Defining 'Efficiency'
- Chapter 3 Defining 'Productivity'
- Chapter 4 Case Scheduling
- Chapter 5 Capacity Planning
- Chapter 6 Staffing and Contracts
- Chapter 7 Theatre Finances
- Chapter 8 Preoperative Patient Preparation
- Chapter 9 Operating Theatre Management in New Zealand: A Case Study of Applying Efficiency Principles at Waikato Public Hospital
- Chapter 10 Operating Theatre Management in Japan
- Chapter 11 Operating Theatre Management in Two European Nations: The Netherlands and Switzerland
- Chapter 12 Operating Theatre Management in Australia
- Chapter 13 Operating Theatre Management in the United States
- Chapter 14 Safety in the Operating Theatres
- Chapter 15 A Personal Overview
- Index