Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Identification of systematic underestimation (bias) of case durations during case scheduling would not markedly reduce overutilized operating room time?
   Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 198–203, 2007
2. Hospitalization Costs of Total Knee Arthroplasty With a Continuous Femoral Nerve Block Provided Only in the Hospital Versus on an Ambulatory Basis: A Retrospective, Case-Control, Cost-Minimization Analysis
   Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 46–54, 2007
3. Initial Clinical Evaluation of a Handheld Device for Detecting Retained Surgical Gauze Sponges Using Radiofrequency Identification Technology
   Archives of Surgery, vol. 141, no. 7, pp. 659–662, 2006
4. Is There Value in Obtaining a Patient???s Willingness to Pay for a Particular Anesthetic Intervention?
   Anesthesiology, vol. 104, no. 5, pp. 906–909, 2006
5. Are Your Hospital Operating Rooms ???Efficient????
   Anesthesiology, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 237–240, 2006
6. Factors affecting supply and demand of anesthesiologists in Western Europe
   Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 207–212, 2006
7. The drive for operating room efficiency will increase quality of patient care
   Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 171–176, 2006
8. Staffing and case scheduling for anesthesia in geographically dispersed locations outside of operating rooms
   Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 453???458, 2006
9. Systematic Literature Review of Spinal Decompression Via Motorized Traction for Chronic Discogenic Low Back Pain
   Pain Practice, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 171–178, 2006
10. BMC Anesthesiology, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 6, 2006
11. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 15, 2006
12. Scheduling Elective Pediatric Procedures That Require Anesthesia: The Perspective of Parents
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 103, no. 6, pp. 1426–1431, 2006
13. Patient Preferences for Anesthesia Outcomes Associated with Cesarean Delivery
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 1182–1187, 2005
14. Quantifying Effect of a Hospital’s Caseload for a Surgical Specialty on That of Another Hospital Using Multi-Attribute Market Segments
    Health Care Management Science, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 121–131, 2005
15. Cost-Effectiveness of a Trial of Labor After Previous Cesarean Delivery Depends on the A Priori Chance of Success
    Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 378–385, 2004
16. When to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Operating Room Efficiency
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, pp. 758–762, 2004
17. Operating Room Utilization Alone Is Not an Accurate Metric for the Allocation of Operating Room Block Time to Individual Surgeons with Low Caseloads
    Anesthesiology, vol. 98, no. 5, pp. 1243–1249, 2003
18. BMC Health Services Research, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 1, 2003
19. Economics of One-Stage Versus Two-Stage Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasties
    Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, vol. 414, pp. 149–156, 2003
20. How to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Efficiency: Predicting Which Surgical Service Will Have the Most Underutilized Operating Room Time
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 507–512, 2003
21. Physicians' perceptions of minimum time that should be saved to move a surgical case from one operating room to another: internet-based survey of the membership of the association of anesthesia clinical directors (aacd)
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 206–210, 2003
22. The pharmacy cost of delivering postoperative analgesia to patients undergoing joint replacement surgery
    The Journal of Pain, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 22–28, 2003
23. What are the Most Important Risk Factors for a Patient???s Developing Intraoperative Hypothermia?
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 215–220, 2002
24. Changing Allocations of Operating Room Time From a System Based on Historical Utilization to One Where the Aim is to Schedule as Many Surgical Cases as Possible
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 1272–1279, 2002
25. Development of an Appropriate List of Surgical Procedures of a Specified Maximum Anesthetic Complexity to Be Performed at a New Ambulatory Surgery Facility
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 78–82, 2002
26. Technology and Computing in the Surgical Suite: Key Features of an OR Management Information System and Opportunities for the Future
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 1120–1121, 2002
27. International Anesthesiology Clinics, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1–16, 2002
28. Economic evaluation of noncontact normothermic wound therapy for treatment of pressure ulcers
    Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Research, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 211–217, 2002
29. Economic Considerations Related to Providing Adequate Pain Relief for Women in Labour
    PharmacoEconomics, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 305–318, 2002
30. The Impact on Revenue of Increasing Patient Volume at Surgical Suites with Relatively High Operating Room Utilization
    Anesthesia and Analgesia, pp. 1215–1221, 2001
31. Hospital Profitability per Hour of Operating Room Time Can Vary Among Surgeons
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 669–675, 2001
32. Ketorolac in the Era of Cyclo-Oxygenase-2 Selective Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: A Systematic Review of Efficacy, Side Effects, and Regulatory Issues
    Pain Medicine, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 336–351, 2001
33. Can peri-operative quality be maintained in the drive for operating room efficiency? An American perspective
    Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 607–619, 2001
34. The surgical suite meets the new health economy
    Journal of the American College of Surgeons, vol. 192, no. 6, pp. 768–776, 2001
35. Variation in practice patterns of anesthesiologists in California for prophylaxis of postoperative nausea and vomiting
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 353–360, 2001
36. Cost-effectiveness of a trial of labor after previous cesarean
    Obstetrics & Gynecology, vol. 97, no. 6, pp. 932–941, 2001
37. Quantitative description of the workload associated with airway management procedures
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 273–282, 2000
38. Analgesia for Labor Pain
    Anesthesiology, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 841–850, 2000
39. Scheduling Surgical Cases into Overflow Block Time??? Computer Simulation of the Effects of Scheduling Strategies on Operating Room Labor Costs
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 980–988, 2000
40. A Retrospective Examination of Regional Plus General Anesthesia in Children Undergoing Open Heart Surgery
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 1020–1024, 2000
41. What Is the Relative Frequency of Uncommon Ambulatory Surgery Procedures Performed in the United States with an Anesthesia Provider?
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 1343–1347, 2000
42. Enterprise-Wide Patient Scheduling Information Systems to Coordinate Surgical Clinic and Operating Room Scheduling Can Impair Operating Room Efficiency
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, pp. 617–626, 2000
43. Statistical Method to Evaluate Management Strategies to Decrease Variability in Operating Room Utilization
    Anesthesiology, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 262–274, 1999
44. Which Algorithm for Scheduling Add-on Elective Cases Maximizes Operating Room Utilization?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 91, no. 5, p. 1491, 1999
45. Forecasting Surgical Groups??? Total Hours of Elective Cases for Allocation of Block Time
    Anesthesiology, vol. 91, no. 5, p. 1501, 1999
46. Relying solely on historical surgical times to estimate accurately future surgical times is unlikely to reduce the average length of time cases finish late
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 601–605, 1999
47. Do clinical pathways improve efficiency?
    Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 281–288, 1999
48. MANAGEMENT OF THE OPERATING ROOMA New Practice Opportunity for Anesthesiologists
    Anesthesiology Clinics of North America, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 365–394, 1999
49. What can the postanesthesiacare unit manager do to decrease costs in the postanesthesia care unit?*
    Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 284–293, 1999
50. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, vol. 15, no. 3/4, pp. 153–162, 1999
51. Decrease in Case Duration Required to Complete an Additional Case During Regularly Scheduled Hours in an Operating Room Suite
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 72–76, 1999
52. Selecting Double-Lumen Tubes for Small Patients
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 88, no. 2, p. 466, 1999
53. Computer Simulation to Determine How Rapid Anesthetic Recovery Protocols to Decrease the Time for Emergence or Increase the Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit Bypass Rate Affect Staffing of an Ambulatory Surgery Center
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 1053–1063, 1999
54. Which Clinical Anesthesia Outcomes Are Both Common and Important to Avoid? The Perspective of a Panel of Expert Anesthesiologists
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 1085–1091, 1999
55. Another Use of a Bronchoscopic Swivel Adapter
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 1187–1188, 1999
56. An Operating Room Scheduling Strategy to Maximize the Use of Operating Room Block Time
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 7–20, 1999
57. Which Clinical Anesthesia Outcomes Are Important to Avoid? The Perspective of Patients
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 89, no. 3, p. 652, 1999
58. A Strategy for Deciding Operating Room Assignments for Second-Shift Anesthetists
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 89, no. 4, p. 920, 1999
59. Postoperative epidural injection of saline can shorten postanesthesia care unit time for knee arthroscopy patients*1
    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 247–251, 1998
60. Setting Performance Standards for an Anesthesia Department
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 166–175, 1998
61. Hospital profitability for a surgeon's common procedures predicts the surgeon's overall profitability for the hospital
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 457–463, 1998
62. Computer simulation of changes in nursing productivity from early tracheal extubation of coronary artery bypass graft patients
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 593–598, 1998
63. Obstetric Postanesthesia Care Unit Stays
    Anesthesiology, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 1559–1565, 1998
64. The Effect of a Perioperative Clinical Pathway for Knee Replacement Surgery on Hospital Costs
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 86, no. 5, pp. 978–984, 1998
65. Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis After Radical Cystectomy in a Patient with a History of Bulbar Polio
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 85, no. 5, pp. 1171–1172, 1997
66. Hospital Costs and Severity of Illness in Three Types of Elective Surgery
    Anesthesiology, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 92–100, 1997
67. Economics of Anesthesia Care
    Anesthesiology, vol. 86, no. 5, pp. 1018–1019, 1997
68. Does Early Extubation ("Fast-tracking") of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients Truly Decrease Perioperative Costs?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 87, no. 1, p. 181, 1997
69. Tracheal Diameter Predicts Double-Lumen Tube Size
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 861–864, 1996
70. Improved Outcome with Chronic Subcutaneous Infusion of Ondansetron for Intractable Nausea and Vomiting
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 194–195, 1996
71. Fuzzy logic: Theory and medical applications
    Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 800–808, 1996
72. Spinal Versus Epidural Anesthesia for Cesarean Section
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 709–712, 1995
73. Spinal Versus Epidural Anesthesia for Cesarean Section
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 1318–1319, 1995
74. Pain outcomes after thoracotomy: Lumbar epidural hydromorphone versus intrapleural bupivacaine
    Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 534–537, 1995
75. Modified bronchocath double-lumen tube
    Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 784–785, 1995
76. Reply
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 175–176, 1995
77. The demographics of inpatient pediatric anesthesia: Implications for credentialing policy,
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 507–511, 1995
78. A Cost Analysis of the Laryngeal Mask Airway for Elective Surgery in Adult Outpatients
    Anesthesiology, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 250–257, 1995
79. Where Are the Costs in Perioperative Care?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 1138–1144, 1995
80. Comparison of Estimated Variable Costs Is a Surrogate for Actual Cost Experience
    Anesthesiology, vol. 83, no. 6, p. 1387, 1995
81. Elimination of 12 and 24 Fr Esophageal Stethoscopes from Anesthetic Practice (An Attempt at Cost Containment)
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 79, no. 2, p. 393, 1994