Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology
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Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · Aug 2022
ReviewTechnical skills in the operating room: Implications for perioperative leadership and patient outcomes.
Today's effective leaders create opportunities for their teams to develop both technical and non-technical skills. In the perioperative arena, the focus until now mainly has been on improving non-technical skills, with only few studies analyzing the relationship between technical skills and patient outcomes. Technical competence requires assessment of one's own strengths and weaknesses, inclusion of deliberate goal-oriented practice, objective structured feedback assessment, and a focus on best practice and improved patient outcomes. In this article, we address the prerequisites, assessment, and implications of technical skills for perioperative leadership, and provide key metrics impacting patient outcomes and leadership development.
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Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · Aug 2022
ReviewBuilding a well-balanced culture in the perioperative setting.
Healthcare institutions are currently under enormous financial, political and social pressure. Especially in the perioperative setting, various professional groups with differing agendas, dynamic teams, high-stress levels and diverging stakeholder interests are contributing to tension on a variety of levels. ⋯ However, culture is a key factor in the search for optimal patient outcomes, quality of care, protection and long-time retention of staff, as well as economic success. In this review, we discuss important aspects to consider in building a great perioperative workplace, discuss indispensable adaptations in times of crisis and touch on urgently needed further investigations to optimize the art of developing, protecting, and cultivating a well-balanced culture.
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Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · Aug 2022
ReviewFinancial management and perioperative leadership in the ambulatory setting journal title: Best practice in clinical research.
A large portion of US healthcare is ambulatory. Strong leadership is vital for the safety and efficiency of perioperative patients in this setting. Good leaders communicate respectfully and openly and ensure effective systems in the delivery of high-level healthcare. ⋯ Given the unsustainable rate of healthcare spending growth, all attempts to improve our present systems are necessary. Ambulatory care facilities must utilize data regarding resource consumption to be financially viable related to escalating expenses. The present review describes perioperative and financial leadership in the ambulatory setting, effective systems, and relevant clinical strategies.
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Perioperative medicine is now a well-recognized albeit still evolving, interdisciplinary subspecialty, which encompasses a wide array of equally invested stakeholders and equally important contributors. The practice of perioperative medicine is fundamentally and optimally a collaborative effort, which aims to provide a comprehensive framework encompassing all aspects of the patient's surgical journey. Moving from a conceptual model of perioperative medicine to an operational perioperative medicine program and clinic requires a methodical management approach. This comprehensive management approach considers a variety of factors, such as defining the mission of a perioperative medicine program, expanding the role of the anesthesiologist and internal medicine hospitalist, recognizing the role of the advanced practice provider, stratifying perioperative management of surgical patients, developing and implementing a program, undertaking a clinical proof-of-concept pilot of a program, scaling up and building out a program, maximizing the electronic health record, leveraging telemedicine and virtual health, and providing adjunctive services.
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Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · Aug 2022
ReviewOperational and strategic decision making in the perioperative setting: Meeting budgetary challenges and quality of care goals.
Efficient operating room (OR) management is a constant balancing act between optimal OR capacity, allocation of ORs to surgeons, assignment of staff, ordering of materials, and reliable scheduling, while according the highest priority to patient safety. We provide an overview of common concepts in OR management, specifically addressing the areas of strategic, tactical, and operational decision making (DM), and parameters to measure OR efficiency. For optimal OR productivity, a surgical suite needs to define its main stakeholders, identify and create strategies to meet their needs, and ensure staff and patient satisfaction. OR planning should be based on real-life data at every stage and should apply newly developed algorithms.