Table 3 Performance measures of the whole process
From: International benchmarking of tertiary trauma centers: productivity and throughput approach
Measure | UKB | HUS |
|---|---|---|
ED visits per physician workday | 11.2 | 8.84 |
ED visits per nurse and secretary workday | 8.95 | 1.77 |
Decisions for surgery per ED physician workday | 1.49 | 3.58 |
Decisions for surgery per ED nurse and secretary workday | 1.19 | 0.72 |
Surgeries per year per anesthesiologist | 862 | 695 |
Surgeries per year per nurse in operating unit | 154 | 90.4 |
Surgery hours per year per anesthesiologist | 786 | 1120 |
Surgery hours per year per nurse in operating unit | 151 | 136 |
O&T surgeries per specialist | 177 | 174 |
O&T surgery hours per specialist | 241 | 314 |
Pre-operative LOS, emergency patients [hours] | 6:13 | 7:15 |
Pre-operative LOS, other urgent patients [days] | 2.86 | 3.73 |
Share of trauma patients operated on within the first day | 52.7% | 35.0% |
Share of trauma patients operated on within two days | 73.9% | 54.6% |
Total LOS, all surgical patients [days] | 7.1 | 4.2 |
Total LOS, O&T surgical patients [days] | 8.6 | 4.3 |
ED mortality rate (excluding death-on-arrival patients) | 0.082% | 0.052% |
Share of non-admitted ED patients (%) | 75% | 64% |
Share of trauma patients discharged from ward | 96.5% | 68.9% |