Optimizing the robotic surgery team: an operations management perspective.

Journal: International urogynecology journal
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: To assess the critical threshold to optimize operating room (OR) time for each surgical team member in robotically assisted sacrocolpopexy (RASCP) and to evaluate the most efficient team compositions.

Authors

  • Oz Harmanli
    Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. oz.harmanli@yale.edu.
  • Senay Solak
    University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management, Amherst, MA, USA.
  • Armagan Bayram
    Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Michigan Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA.
  • Beril Yuksel
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA, USA.
  • Keisha Jones
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA, USA.