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Archive > April, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 4

Business Advisor

OR Scheduling Not So Block and White

Richard T. Vagley, MD, FACS

I am not of the opinion that block scheduling, ingrained as it may be at most surgical facilities, is the be-all and end-all of effective OR management. While block scheduling is theoretically designed to bring order to the chaos of the typical OR, it may produce the unintended consequence of dampening growth in the room.

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