Background: When prearranged standard surgical trays contain instruments that are
repeatedly unused, the redundancy can result in unnecessary health care costs. Our …

Surgical trays contain unused instruments which generate wasted resources from
unnecessary reprocessing/replacement costs. We implemented a quality improvement …

Background Health care costs in Canada continue to rise. As a result of this relentless
increase in healthcare spending, ways to increase efficiency and decrease cost are …

Background: Surgical trays are often poorly configured and can be ongoing sources of
frustration and excess costs. We conducted an observational study to determine if the use of …

Background Efficiency in the operating room has become a topic of great interest. This study
aimed to quantify the percent use of instruments among common instrument trays across 4 …

Objective: Operating rooms (OR) generate a large portion of hospital revenue and waste.
Consequently, improving efficiency and reducing waste is a high priority. Our objective was …

Background Operating room efficiency can be compromised because of surgical instrument
processing delays. We observed that many instruments in a standardized tray were not …

Objective As health care expenditures rise, novel ways to increase efficiency are sought.
The operating room (OR) represents an area where there is opportunity to optimize work …

Importance In an era of increasing health care expenditure, reduction of redundant head
and neck surgical instrumentation may minimize waste. Objective To (1) optimize head and …

Background Health care spending in the US remains excessively high. Aside from
complicated, large-scale efforts at health care cost reduction, there are still relatively simple …