Improving Theatre Efficiency in Hand Surgery Lists

Improving operating theatre efficiency in South Africa.

Improving theatre turnaround time

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has determined that a £7 million saving can be achieved per trust by improving theatre efficiency. The aim of this quality improvement project was to improve orthopaedic theatre turnaround without compromising the patient safety. We process mapped all the stages from application of dressing to knife to skin on the next patient in order to identif...

Waiting lists for surgery.

© 2002 Canadian Medical Association S waiting lists are seen by many as epitomizing the shortcomings of our public health care system. Yet, they can also be interpreted as being the result of a societal compromise between the founders’ promise of universal access to care and the reality of currently committed resources. Regardless of one’s perception, the debate about the “appropriate length” o...

Causes of elective surgery cancellation and theatre throughput efficiency in an Australian urology unit

OBJECTIVE To evaluate our unit's theatre throughput efficiency, to identify where inefficiencies existed and consequently where the greatest improvement might be made.To identify the causes of day of surgery cancellations and how they might be avoided.  PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective audit of theatre utilisation was undertaken over a 6 month period between 05/02//2013 and 02/08/2013 at Ip...

Improving Mergesort for Linked Lists

We present a highly tuned mergesort algorithm that improves the cost bounds when used to sort linked lists of elements. We provide empirical comparisons of our algorithm with other mergesort algorithms. The paper also illustrates the sort of techniques that allow to speed a divide-and-conquer algorithm.