Contributing Factors to Operating Room Delays Identified from an Electronic Health Record: A Retrospective Study

Table 1

Summary statistics of procedure delays by surgical specialty.

Surgical specialty	Total number of cases	Avg proc delay (hours)	Std dev (hours)
Cardiothoracic (CT)	1,291	0.667	1.59
General surgery (GS)	8,114	0.341	1.35
Gynecology (GY)	2,777	0.327	0.80
Neurology (NE)	4,205	0.343	1.20
Dental (OD)	277	0.021	0.852
Oral (OL)	490	0.303	0.853
Ophthalmology (OP)	50	0.649	2.08
Orthopedics (OR)	33,991	0.244	0.806
PA (pain)	1,277	0.010	0.395
Plastics (PL)	2,396	0.120	1.33
Urology (URO)	6,608	0.276	0.840
Vascular (VS)	6,335	0.340	0.897