Operating room management: what goes wrong and how to fix it.
Operating rooms are probably the most difficult of all hospital areas to manage. This article describes a number of common management problems in operating rooms and identifies four broad management areas that must be adequately addressed to ensure an effectively run O.R. It also suggests possible approaches for dealing with the four areas.
Olive View/UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA.
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