RT Journal
A1 Saleh, Khaled J.
A1 Novicoff, Wendy M.
A1 Rion, David
A1 MacCracken, Linda H.
A1 Siegrist, Richard
T1 Operating-Room Throughput: Strategies for Improvement
JF The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
JO The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
YR 2009
FD August 1
VO 91
IS 8
SP 2028
OP 2039
DO 10.2106/JBJS.H.01530
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.H.01530
AB 
Orthopaedic surgery is a discipline of increasing importance as an avenue for health-care delivery in the United States. Americans of working age and older (sixty-five years and over) identify disorders of the musculoskeletal system as the foremost cause of limitation of activity1. The country's population is aging, as the proportion of individuals sixty-five years of age and older is growing at a faster rate than the total population. Furthermore, the number of orthopaedic procedures and the corresponding allocation of resources are expected to increase in coming years. For example, the annual demand for primary total knee arthroplasty has been projected to reach 3.48 million procedures by the year 2030, and the quantity of revision knee arthroplasties is estimated to increase 601% from 2005 levels by that same year2.