Operating Room Metrics by Xenon Health

1. How Can OR Metrics Benefit Anesthesia Services?

2. What are Operating Room Metrics ? • Operating room metrics are a part of evaluation and are important in measuring and comparing the quality of care and efficiency of operating rooms • Produce robust data that can be used to assess operating rooms and determine areas that require improvement. • Operating room metrics that are essential to the efficient management of surgical services include On-Time Starts, Turnaround Times, Percent Block Utilization, Percent O.R. Utilization, Accuracy of Case Scheduling, and Case Time Variability • Many of these operating room metrics can benefit anesthesia services. According to The Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, “[f]or anesthesiologists, efforts to increase anesthesia group productivity are the same as increasing the efficiency of use of OR time”

3. Impact of Operating Room Metrics on Anesthesia services • Utilization of operating room metrics can have a significant impact on anesthesia services • Most commonly used metric for anesthesia managers is the evaluation of potential stipend requirements. • Anesthesia managers use financial analysis to determine whether the revenue potential of each location matches the cost of providing care.

4. Operating Room Metrics – Evaluate Performance • Operating room metrics are also used to evaluate performance • For example, percentage of cases cancelled or delayed by anesthesia are typical performance standards that are operating room metrics. • These metrics can be linked to performance evaluations and stipend payments, which aim to incentivize high quality anesthesia care. • With financial support of anesthesiology groups increasing, financial-based performance metrics in service contracts are also becoming increasingly more common

5. Importance of Operating room metrics • Improving operating room efficiency remains to be one of the top priorities for all hospital operating rooms • Anesthesiologists benefit from the efficient and effective use of operating room metrics. • Incorporating operating room metrics • Allows anesthesia practices to effectively manage themselves • Providers hospitals with productivity and performance indicators and metrics that emphasize the crucial role that anesthesia plays in improving operating room management

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