Estimating Surgical Procedure Times Using Anesthesia Billing Data and Operating Room Records

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• 作者：Lane F. Burgette ; Andrew W. Mulcahy ; Ateev Mehrotra ; Teague Ruder and Barbara O. Wynn
• 刊名：Health Services Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：52
• 期：1
• 页码：74-92
• 全文大小：309K
• ISSN：1475-6773

文摘

The median time required to perform a surgical procedure is important in determining payment under Medicare's physician fee schedule. Prior studies have demonstrated that the current methodology of using physician surveys to determine surgical times results in overstated times. To measure surgical times more accurately, we developed and validated a methodology using available data from anesthesia billing data and operating room (OR) records.