Strategies to Mitigate the Pandemic Aftermath on Perioperative Professionalism.

Background: This retrospective comparative cohort study aimed to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 on professionalism within the perioperative environment of a tertiary cancer center across three periods: pre-pandemic, pandemic, and an interventional endemic phase.

Methods: A retrospective observational review of a prospectively maintained safety event report (SER) database at MD Anderson Cancer Center, with an intervention during the COVID-19 endemic phase, was conducted. This was performed to compare the incidence of professionalism-related events (PRE), which are included in the SER database, during the COVID-19 pandemic period (March 2020 to May 2022), with a pre-pandemic period (September 2011 to February 2020) and a postintervention endemic phase (June 2022 to March 2023).

Improving bed turnover time with a bed management system.

Efficient patient throughput requires a high degree of coordination and communication. Opportunities abound to improve the patient experience by eliminating waste from the process and improving communication among the multiple disciplines involved in facilitating patient flow. In this article, we demonstrate how an interdisciplinary team at a large tertiary cancer center implemented an electronic bed management system to improve the bed turnover component of the patient throughput process.