Another potential solution is to reduce non-operative workload, thereby allowing trainees more time to attend theatre.
The use of clinical assistants[ 30, 31], and expanded roles for nurses[ 32] has the potential to considerably reduce the non-operative workload per trainee[ 31, 33], although where nurses are being trained as surgical care practitioners the volume of procedures required for their training may impact heavily on the number remaining for surgical trainees[ 33].
Besides the surgery extent, the participating surgeons' operative skill and experience, and the workload cases are also important factors for survival rates[ 21, 22].
The teaching playback motion is used mainly for structured tasks such as the forceps change motion or the return motion to the home position in order to reduce the surgeon's workload and improve the efficiency of the operative procedure.
Despite this, using measures of surgical workload to measure: intended admissions, patient cancellations and eventual operative list volume might represent more useful managerial data than theatre utilization rates.
Euroscore II predicted operative risk and type of surgery elevate the risk of increased nursing workload.
Unplanned activities, which are more commonly referred to as consultations, can represent significant additional workload for the urologist seeing scheduled clinic patients or completing elective operative cases.
Apart from department size, the latter may also be influenced by systemic problems connected with increased workload, financial and time pressure such as the DRG system which was only operative in Germany.
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