Surgical disruption: information quality perspective
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Article Title | Surgical disruption: information quality perspective |
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ERA Journal ID | 32085 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Al-Hakim, Latif |
Journal Title | International Journal of Information Quality |
Journal Citation | 2 (2), pp. 192-204 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2008 |
Place of Publication | Olney, Bucks. United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1751-0457 |
1751-0465 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIQ.2008.022963 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.inderscience.com/ijiq/ |
Abstract | Common surgical errors can be prevented or intercepted by avoiding disruptions inside the operating rooms. This paper uses Information Quality (IQ) concepts and identifies information elements that cause disruptions. It reports preliminary results from 27 observed surgeries conducted in two Australian hospitals. The methodology used employs an 'object-centred' strategy in which the object is the surgeon and records the time during which the surgeon has to wait unnecessarily. Results indicated that disruptions prolonged surgical time and forces surgeons to unnecessary wait for more than 19% of the normal surgical time. However, due to the small number of observations more work is required to provide a better coverage to the vast causes of disruptions unaccounted for in this study. |
Keywords | surgical disruption; information quality; governance information; surgery; surgical operations; Australia; surgical time; healthcare |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 420399. Health services and systems not elsewhere classified |
350715. Quality management | |
320226. Surgery | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Management and Marketing |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9yyvq/surgical-disruption-information-quality-perspective
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