Objective To determine whether location-linked anaesthesiology calculator mobile
application (app) data can serve as a qualitative proxy for global surgical case volumes and …

For this special article, we reviewed the computer code, used to extract the data, and the text
of all 47 studies published between January 2006 and August 2017 using anesthesia …

Emergency departments need to continuously calculate quality indicators in order to perform
structural improvements, improvements in the daily routine, and ad-hoc improvements in …

Background Our goal was to assess whether anesthesia workforce limited surgical
obstetrical care in the rural US state of Iowa. All Iowa hospitals with obstetrics have …

Background An earlier study examined weekend and holiday cases at many hospitals. Over
a decade, treating weekend/holiday caseloads simply as proportional to total caseload …

Background Bacterial transmission within and between successive surgical cases occurs in
operating rooms (ORs), often includes anesthesia equipment as a reservoir, and can be …

When hospital capacity is near census, either due to limits on the number of physical or
staffed beds, delays in patients' discharge can result in domino effects of congestion for the …

Study objective Recent studies have made longitudinal assessments of case counts using
State (eg, United States) and Provincial (eg, Canada) databases. Such databases rarely …

Study objective We tested the hypothesis that over many years–a decade–hospitals'
proportions of surgical cases that were performed on weekends and holidays remained …

Objective: To determine whether usage data from a globally used anesthesiology calculator
mobile application can serve as a proxy for global surgical case volume and contribute to …