Is 'starting on time' useful (or useless) as a surrogate measure for 'surgical theatre efficiency'?

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Published in Anaesthesia on April 16, 2012

Authors

J J Pandit1, T Abbott, M Pandit, A Kapila, R Abraham

Author Affiliations

1: Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK. jaideep.pandit@dpag.ox.ac.uk

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