Overview
The operating room suite is a small business unit functioning within a parent organization (hospital or medical center). For this reason, it must be managed with effective business methods similar to those used in industry. Operating Room Management applies constructive business strategy to the operating room suite, dealing with issues including organizational structure, financial management, accounting principles, inventory control, operations management, and marketing. Detailing the elements necessary for the efficient functioning of the operating room, this book is designed to help anesthesiologists and managers who are actively engaged in day-to-day operating room management or who have broad administrative or fiscal responsibilities for the operating room suite.
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The operating room suite is a small business unit functioning within a parent organization (hospital or medical center). For this reason, it must be managed with effective business methods similar to those used in industry. This book applies constructive business strategy to the operating room suite, dealing with organizational structure, financial management, accounting principles, inventory control, operations management, and marketing. Detailing the elements necessary for the efficient functioning of the operating room, this book is designed to help anesthesiologists and managers who are actively engaged in day-to-day operating room management or who have broad administrative or fiscal responsibilities for the operating room suite.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Thomas W. Cutter, MD, MAEd(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)Description: This book serves as a primer for those desiring an overview of the myriad clinical, fiscal, and administrative aspects of operating room (OR) management.
Purpose: The authors' intent is to "focus on broad principles" that are applicable to OR suites in many settings. This is a commendable goal. The authors have provided a good introduction and, while not exhaustive, they have succeeded in covering virtually all of the most important issues.
Audience: The intended audience includes nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons, and healthcare administrators. Each group will probably feel that the sections of the book with which they are familiar are presented at a very elementary level, but they will be grateful for the same simplicity in those chapters about issues that are new to them. In addition, the authors bring a combined background that lends authority and credibility to the information in this book.
Features: They cover topics from the perspective of three typical settings: a major academic center, a freestanding ambulatory surgery center, and a community hospital. They begin with a brief overview of the development of the OR suite and explore the impact that different payers, demographics, and technology all have had on the distribution and utilization of resources. They then delve into accounting and financing, clinical services, operations, material and information management, and standards. Besides the theoretical text, they furnish numerous examples to illustrate their points and provide scenarios with open-ended questions to stimulate thought. They finish the book with a compendium of useful appendixes of codes, standards, and guidelines.
Assessment: This book is very well-written and organized. It is a pleasure to read all the way through but to glean every bit of information with which one is familiar will require attentive reading. Although "focus(ing) on broad principles" may be an oxymoron, these authors do a fine job of accomplishing their goal in this book. While other clinical or management texts may yield a more complete and detailed approach to any one of the topics, the authors have managed to integrate important aspects of OR management into a meaningful whole.
Thomas W. Cutter
This book serves as a primer for those desiring an overview of the myriad clinical, fiscal, and administrative aspects of operating room (OR) management. The authors' intent is to ""focus on broad principles"" that are applicable to OR suites in many settings. This is a commendable goal. The authors have provided a good introduction and, while not exhaustive, they have succeeded in covering virtually all of the most important issues. The intended audience includes nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons, and healthcare administrators. Each group will probably feel that the sections of the book with which they are familiar are presented at a very elementary level, but they will be grateful for the same simplicity in those chapters about issues that are new to them. In addition, the authors bring a combined background that lends authority and credibility to the information in this book. They cover topics from the perspective of three typical settings: a major academic center, a freestanding ambulatory surgery center, and a community hospital. They begin with a brief overview of the development of the OR suite and explore the impact that different payers, demographics, and technology all have had on the distribution and utilization of resources. They then delve into accounting and financing, clinical services, operations, material and information management, and standards. Besides the theoretical text, they furnish numerous examples to illustrate their points and provide scenarios with open-ended questions to stimulate thought. They finish the book with a compendium of useful appendixes of codes, standards, and guidelines. This book is very well-written and organized. It is a pleasure to readall the way through but to glean every bit of information with which one is familiar will require attentive reading. Although ""focus(ing) on broad principles"" may be an oxymoron, these authors do a fine job of accomplishing their goal in this book. While other clinical or management texts may yield a more complete and detailed approach to any one of the topics, the authors have managed to integrate important aspects of OR management into a meaningful whole.Booknews
Anesthesiologists and a nurse manager from the University of Rochester, New York describe the environment and design of operating rooms, for immediate managers or others who have broad administrative or fiscal responsibilities for the suite. Focusing on business strategies, the discuss such aspects as organizational structure, financial management, accounting principles, inventory control, operations management, and marketing. The goal is to improve quality, increase productivity, and reduce costs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)4 Stars! from Doody