title: How hospitals manage operating room delays.
abstract: This article reports the background and findings of a study made in late summer of 1987 on the incidence and management of some factors identified as contributing to delays, and thus inefficiency, in operating room utilization.
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D013502:General Surgery; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014481:United States