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Archive > October, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 10

Do You Measure Up?

Compare your financial and clinical performance to established surgical benchmarks.

Daniel Cook, Managing Editor

Can you turn over a room in 10 minutes? Perform 11 cases in each OR, each day? Get orthopedic patients in and out of the OR in 74 minutes? Move bills out of accounts receivable in 35 days? These are but a few of the industry's benchmarks we've gathered for you. We asked a few of the companies and associations that capture and analyze clinical and financial data for the ambulatory surgery industry to share with us a key benchmark or two. As you might imagine, we had to do a little arm-twisting, as much of what you're about to read is proprietary.

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