Dtsch Arztebl Int
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Multicenter Study
Delays in starting morning operating lists: an analysis of more than 20,000 cases in 22 German hospitals.
Delays in the start of the first operation of the day often lead to conflicts among the involved physicians and nurses. Data on such delays have already been published for individual hospitals, but robust comparative data from a large number of institutions have not been available till now. ⋯ The processes for the first operation of the day are not optimally structured in the hospitals whose cases were analyzed in this study. Delayed starts were common.