An Audit of Operating Room Time Utilization in a Teaching Hospital: Is There a Place for Improvement?

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Time intervals and total time according to the impact of the surgical procedure. Box and whisker plots of each setup according to the operations’ surgical impact. Data are expressed in minutes as median (range); 1: minor surgical impact; 2: medium surgical impact; 3: major surgical impact. *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01,***𝑃<0.001 indicate statistical significance of each setup versus minor surgical impact procedures.

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