Lean methods to improve operating room elective first case on-time starts in a large, urban, safety net medical center

Use of Lean and Six Sigma Methodology to Improve Operating Room Efficiency in a High-Volume Tertiary-Care Academic Medical Center

Robert R. Cima, Michael J. Brown, James R. Hebl et al. · Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2011 · 433 citations

Management, Operations Management, Quality Management +16

The Impact of Service-Specific Staffing, Case Scheduling, Turnovers, and First-Case Starts on Anesthesia Group and Operating Room Productivity: A Tutorial Using Data from an Australian Hospital

Catherine A. McIntosh, Franklin Dexter, Richard H. Epstein · Anesthesia & Analgesia · 2006 · 341 citations

Management, Anesthesiology, Operations Management +17

Improving operating room efficiency through process redesign

Maureen Harders, Mark A. Malangoni, Steven Weight et al. · Surgery · 2006 · 227 citations

Management, Operations Management, Performance Management +13

Increasing Operating Room Efficiency Through Parallel Processing

David M. Friedman, Suzanne M. Sokal, Yuchiao Chang et al. · Annals of Surgery · 2005 · 201 citations · Full text

Medicine, Perioperative Medicine, Surgery +13

Lean Management in Academic Surgery

Ryan M. Collar, Andrew G. Shuman, Sandra Feiner et al. · Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2012 · 178 citations

Management, Operations Management, Surgery +14