Models for Improving Operating Room Productivity: Delays, Cancellations and Pre-admission Testing

Other Surgical Procedures Clinical Trial

Official title:

Models for Improving Operating Room Productivity: Delays, Cancellations and Pre-admission Testing

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02525406
• Other study ID #: Surgical-Cancellation-Study
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: July 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2025

Study information

• Verified date: June 2024
• Source: University of Toledo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of the study is to identify factors that enhance productivity and increase value delivered by hospitals drawing on concepts used in industry for quality and productivity in production and operations management literature. The investigators intend to look at surgeon experience, patient characteristics and pre-admission testing on operating room productivity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 9240
• Est. completion date: December 2025
• Est. primary completion date: June 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All scheduled surgical patients' information gathered in Surgery database from January 2010 thru August 2020 will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any case type where less than 5 surgeries were performed by a surgeon would be excluded and if the surgeon in question had less than 3 months of data available.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Other Surgical Procedures

Intervention

Other:
• All surgeries performed from Jan 01, 2010 to Aug 31, 2020

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Toledo	Toledo	Ohio

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Toledo Health Science Campus

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Surgical Experience vs Average Completion times of surgical procedures	A measurement of the surgeon's experience (in years) since completion of training until the surgical procedure (Day of surgery/Day 1) will be compared to the surgeon's average time (measured in minutes) to complete the surgical procedure.	intraoperative
Secondary	Variability in Completion times of surgical procedures to predict scheduling difficulties.	The length of time (measured in minutes) required to complete surgical procedures will be assessed for variability per surgeon. Extreme variability will be compared to the effect on the surgery schedule for that date.	intraoperative
Secondary	Preadmission Testing and how it relates to the surgical procedure: time to completion, delays in starting time and/or cancellation.	Patients completing testing and assessment in the Pre Admission testing center will be compared to patients that were not tested or assessed in the Pre admission testing center to determine if there is a change in the completion time of the surgical procedure, increase the variability in the completion time for the surgeon, lead to delays or cancellation of the surgical procedures.	Day 1
Secondary	Patient Acuity vs Complexity of surgical procedure	The patient acuity level will be compared to the complexity of the surgical procedure as measured by an investigator assigned complexity scale and how it relates to the time to completion and its impact on operating room scheduling.	Day 1