Association of Surgical Setting and Deployment of a New Electronic Health Record With Ophthalmic Operative Times.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Determining the association of surgical setting and implementation of a new electronic health record (EHR) system with ophthalmic operative times is important for surgical planning and resource allocation.

Objective

To assess the associations of surgical setting and EHR system replacement with operative times for ophthalmic surgery.

Design, setting, and participants

This case series included ophthalmic surgeries from July 2015 to November 2016 in 2 ambulatory surgical centers and 1 hospital outpatient department in a single academic eye institute. Operative times from consecutive surgical cases performed by board-certified ophthalmologists were extracted from 2 EHR systems. Those performed after replacement EHR system implementation were divided into three

SUBMITTER: Gulati S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6587144 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature