2006

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Holiday and weekend operating room on-call staffing requirements. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1494-1498, 2006  [PDF]

Fitzgerald J, Lum M, Dadich A. Scheduling unplanned surgery: a tool for improving dialogue about queue position on emergency theatre lists. Australian Health Review 30:219-231, 2006

O’Sullivan CT, Dexter F. Assigning surgical cases with regional anesthetic blocks to anesthetists and operating rooms based on operating room efficiency. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 74:213-218, 2006

Torkki PM, Alho AI, Peltokorpi AV, Torkki MI, Kallio PE. Managing urgent surgery as a process: case study of a trauma center. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 22:255-260, 2006
 

2005

Charalambous CP, Tryfonidis M, Paschalides C, Lamprianou I, Samarji R, Hirst P. Operating out of hours in acute orthopaedics: Variations amongst surgeons and regions in the United Kingdom. Injury 36:1306-1310, 2005
 

2004

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Traub RD, Xiao Y. Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times. Anesthesiology 101:1444-1453, 2004  [PDF]

Seagull FJ, Xiao Y, Plasters C. Information accuracy and sampling effort: a field study of surgical scheduling coordination. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A. 34:764-771, 2004
 

2003

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Optimizing second shift OR staffing. AORN Journal 77:825-830, 2003
 

2002

Conaghan PJ, Figueira E, Griffin MA, Ingham Clark CL. Randomized clinical trial of the effectiveness of emergency day surgery against standard inpatient treatment. British Journal of Surgery 89:423-427, 2002

Dexter F, Epstein RH, HM Marsh. Costs and risks of weekend anesthesia staffing at six independently managed surgical suites. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 70:377-381, 2002

Windokun A, Obideyi A. Audit of emergency theatre utilisation. African Journal of Medicine & Medical Sciences 31:59-62, 2002
 

2001

Dexter F, O’Neill L. Weekend operating room on-call staffing requirements: schedule each staff member in-house or on standby from home? AORN Journal 74:666-671, 2001

Lucas CE, Buechter KJ, Coscia RL, Hurst JM, Meredith JW, Middleton JD, Rinker CR, Tuggle D, Vlahos AL, Wilberger J. Mathematical modeling to define optimum operating room staffing needs for trauma centers. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 192:559-565, 2001

Pearse RM, Dana EC, Lanigan CJ, Pook JA. Organisational failures in urgent and emergency surgery. A potential peri-operative risk factor. Anaesthesia 56:684-689, 2001, with letter 1204-1205
 

2000

Dexter F. A strategy to decide whether to move the last case of the day in an operating room to another empty operating room to decrease overtime labor costs. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:925-928, 2000

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Statistical method using operating room information system data to determine anesthetist weekend call requirements. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 68:21-26, 2000

Dexter F, Traub RD. Determining staffing requirements for a second shift of anesthetists by graphical analysis of data from operating room information systems. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 68:31-36, 2000
 

1999

Dexter F, Macario A, O’Neill L. A strategy for deciding operating room assignments for second-shift anesthetists. Anesthesia & Analgesia 89:920-924, 1999

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Which algorithm for scheduling add-on elective cases maximizes operating room utilization? Use of bin packing algorithms and fuzzy constraints in operating room management. Anesthesiology 91:1491-1500, 1999  [PDF]

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Optimal sequencing of urgent surgical cases - scheduling cases using operating room information systems. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 15:153-162, 1999

Tucker JB, Barone JE, Cecere J, Blabey RG, Rha CK. Using queueing theory to determine operating room staffing needs. Journal of Trauma-  Injury, Infection, & Critical Care 46:71-77, 1999
 

1998

Zhou J, Dexter F. Method to assist in the scheduling of add-on surgical cases - upper prediction bounds for surgical case durations based on the log normal distribution. Anesthesiology 89:1228-1232, 1998
 

1997

Lucas CE, Dombi GW, Crilly RJ, Ledgerwood AM, Yu P, Vlahos A. Neurosurgical trauma call: use of a mathematical simulation program to define manpower needs. Journal of Trauma 42:818-824, 1997

Tessler MJ, Kleiman SJ, Huberman MM. A “zero tolerance for overtime” increases surgical per case costs. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 44:1036-1041, 1997
 

1996

Dexter F. Application of prediction levels to operating room scheduling. AORN Journal 63:607-615, 1996