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Patient Waiting Time Matters When Filling a Pod of Operating Rooms—Reply
David L. Berger, MD
Arch Surg. 2007;142(11):1114.
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We appreciate the comments made by Drs Dexter and Wachtel regarding the possible effect on patient waiting time related to case variation. He points out the potential longitudinal variation in surgeon-case combinations and the possible necessity to delay procedures to even out the case flow into the pod environment. He also notes that surgeons who are near the cut-off for profiling into the pod are, by definition, on the border of having enough appropriate case volume.
While these arguments have merit, the implications are likely limited to the extreme end of the group, the surgeon with a borderline acceptable profile. The vast majority of the blocks in the pod will be filled by surgeons with an abundance of case-appropriate case volume and who will not run into difficulties with insufficient appropriate volume. Furthermore, all surgeons with blocks in the pod will also have blocks . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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