Managing capacity for virtual and office appointments in chronic care.

Patients living with a chronic disease often require regular appointments and treatments. Due to the constraints on the availability of office appointments and the capacity of physicians, access to chronic care can be limited; consequently, patients may fail to receive the recommended care suggested by clinical guidelines. Virtual appointments can provide a cost-effective alternative to traditional office appointments for managing chronic conditions.

Optimizing the robotic surgery team: an operations management perspective.

Introduction And Hypothesis: To assess the critical threshold to optimize operating room (OR) time for each surgical team member in robotically assisted sacrocolpopexy (RASCP) and to evaluate the most efficient team compositions.

Methods: All women who underwent RASCP for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) were prospectively entered in a database. Patients having unrelated concomitant surgery were excluded.