Efficiency in Operating Rooms and Patient Prioritization for Elective Surgery (January 2020)
“Efficient Use of Elective Surgical Theaters and Management of Non-GES Surgical Waiting Lists” identified 40 findings related to the underutilization of operating rooms and 26 recommendations on how to increase the number of daily surgeries through more efficient use, estimating that, on average, they operated only 53% of the institutional time. The document also proposes managing the NON-GES waiting list based on diagnoses and severity rather than just the time frame a person has been on it.