Preventable Variation within Operating Rooms Information Quality Perspective

摘要：

This paper uses the concepts of information quality to identify the preventable variation in terms of disruption and delay within the operating rooms. This paper has presented the results of 22 cases undertaken inside operating rooms of a public hospital in Australia. Results demonstrated that preventable variation resulted from poor information quality increases surgical time and forced surgeons and patients to endure an unnecessarily average delay of 25.68% (or about 26%) of the total surgery time. Such additional time could be utilised to deal with the pressure of emergency cases and to reduce the waiting lists for elective surgery.

关键词： Information flow information quality operating room preventable variation surgery

作者: Latif Al-Hakim Xiao Yan Gong

作者单位: Faculty of Business University of Southern Queensland Queensland, Australia 4350

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Fourth International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology(第四届科技信息资源共享促进国际会议 COINFO 2009)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 156-161

在线出版日期: 2009-11-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）