title: [OR-management and self-improvement - a discrepancy?].
abstract: Today, operating room management is essential for a modern hospital. The strategic controls of this cost-intensive area and the ongoing cost pressure have necessitated management attention to this area. Economical, processual and quality data are well-known and established, although analysis of different health delivering organisations by benchmarking is still difficult. It remains still a severe task for the management of an OR and anaesthesia department. For these fields data is needed to identify and measure the performance of these departments in the dimensions of finances, development, processes and patient's needs. The key performance indicators are exemplified for an anaesthesia department and discussed.
authors.forename: Mattias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Casutt
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Konrad
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schüpfer
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D019985:Benchmarking; D006801:Humans; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010361:Patients