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List of works by Richard H. Epstein

Adoption of anesthesia information management systems by academic departments in the United States

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Airway sealing pressures of the laryngeal mask airway in pediatric patients

scientific article published in March 1996

Allocative efficiency vs technical efficiency in operating room management

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Analysis of operating room allocations to optimize scheduling of specialty rotations for anesthesia trainees

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Analysis of variance of communication latencies in anesthesia: comparing means of multiple log-normal distributions

scientific article published on 23 August 2011

Anesthesia information management system implementation: a practical guide

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Anesthesia information management systems: a survey of current implementation policies and practices

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Anesthesiologist staffing considerations consequent to the temporal distribution of hypoxemic episodes in the postanesthesia care unit.

scientific article published on December 2014

Annual Number of Spinal Cord Stimulation Procedures Performed in the State of Florida During 2018: Implications for Establishing Neuromodulation Centers of Excellence

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Automated correction of room location errors in anesthesia information management systems

scientific article published on September 2008

Automated identification of drug and food allergies entered using non-standard terminology.

scientific article published on 07 June 2013

Automatic notifications mediated by anesthesia information management systems reduce the frequency of prolonged gaps in blood pressure documentation.

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Automatic updating of times remaining in surgical cases using Bayesian analysis of historical case duration data and "instant messaging" updates from anesthesia providers

journal article published in 2009

Calculating institutional support that benefits both the anesthesia group and hospital

scientific article published in February 2008

Case cancellation rates measured by surgical service differ whether based on the number of cases or the number of minutes cancelled.

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Choosing which practitioner sees the next patient in the preanesthesia evaluation clinic based on the relative speeds of the practitioner

scientific article published on 25 January 2013

Cohort study of cases with prolonged tracheal extubation times to examine the relationship with duration of workday

scientific article published on 14 September 2013

Communication latencies of Apple push notification messages relevant for delivery of time-critical information to anesthesia providers

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

Communication latencies of wireless devices suitable for time-critical messaging to anesthesia providers

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Descriptive study of case scheduling and cancellations within 1 week of the day of surgery

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Design, implementation, and evaluation of a computerized system to communicate with patients with limited native language proficiency in the perioperative period.

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Development of a scheduled drug diversion surveillance system based on an analysis of atypical drug transactions

scientific article published in October 2007

Development of a staff recall system for mass casualty incidents using cell phone text messaging

scientific article published on March 2010

Do heated humidifiers and heat and moisture exchangers prevent temperature drop during lower abdominal surgery?

scientific article published in January 1992

Estimate of the relative risk of succinylcholine for triggering malignant hyperthermia

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Estimating surgical case durations and making comparisons among facilities: identifying facilities with lower anesthesia professional fees.

scientific article published on 04 April 2013

Estimating the incidence of prolonged turnover times and delays by time of day.

scientific article published in June 2005

Event-based knowledge elicitation of operating room management decision-making using scenarios adapted from information systems data.

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Explanation for the near-constant mean time remaining in surgical cases exceeding their estimated duration, necessary for appropriate display on electronic white boards.

scientific article published on 18 June 2013

Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists

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Forecasting preanesthesia clinic appointment duration from the electronic medical record medication list

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

Futility of Cluster Designs at Individual Hospitals to Study Surgical Site Infections and Interventions Involving the Installation of Capital Equipment in Operating Rooms

scientific article published on 07 March 2020

High concentration versus incremental induction of anesthesia with sevoflurane in children: a comparison of induction times, vital signs, and complications

scientific article published in February 1998

Holiday and weekend operating room on-call staffing requirements

scientific article published in December 2006

Impact of average patient acuity on staffing of the phase I PACU.

scientific article published in October 2006

Implications of Resolved Hypoxemia on the Utility of Desaturation Alerts Sent from an Anesthesia Decision Support System to Supervising Anesthesiologists

scientific article published on June 13, 2012

Implications of event entry latency on anesthesia information management decision support systems

scientific article published in March 2009

Increased mean time from end of surgery to operating room exit in a historical cohort of cases with prolonged time to extubation

scientific article published in December 2013

Influence of Supervision Ratios by Anesthesiologists on First-case Starts and Critical Portions of Anesthetics

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

Intraoperative accuracy of a point-of-care glucose meter compared with simultaneous central laboratory measurements

scientific article published on May 2012

Lack of utility of a decision support system to mitigate delays in admission from the operating room to the postanesthesia care unit

scientific article published in December 2013

Lack of value of scheduling processes to move cases from a heavily used main campus to other facilities within a health care system.

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Mean Arterial Pressures Bracketing Prolonged Monitoring Interruptions Have Negligible Systematic Differences from Matched Controls Without Such Gaps

scientific article published on April 25, 2011

Mediated Interruptions of Anaesthesia Providers using Predictions of Workload from Anaesthesia Information Management System Data

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Meta-analysis of average and variability of time to extubation comparing isoflurane with desflurane or isoflurane with sevoflurane.

scientific article published in May 2010

Meta-analysis of desflurane and propofol average times and variability in times to extubation and following commands

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Metabolic syndrome increases risk for pulmonary embolism after hip and knee arthroplasty.

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Numbers of simultaneous turnovers calculated from anesthesia or operating room information management system data

scientific article published in September 2009

Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting, Decision Support, and Regulatory Oversight

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Preadmission hyperglycemia is an independent risk factor for in-hospital symptomatic pulmonary embolism after major orthopedic surgery

scientific article published on 4 December 2008

Prevalence of discordant elevations of state entropy and bispectral index in patients at amnestic sevoflurane concentrations: a historical cohort study

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

Provider Access to Legacy Electronic Anesthesia Records Following Implementation of an Electronic Health Record System

scientific article published on 16 March 2019

Reducing family members' anxiety while waiting on the day of surgery: systematic review of studies and implications of HIPAA health information privacy rules.

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Relative influence on total cancelled operating room time from patients who are inpatients or outpatients preoperatively.

scientific article published in May 2014

Rescheduling of previously cancelled surgical cases does not increase variability in operating room workload when cases are scheduled based on maximizing efficiency of use of operating room time

scientific article published on 10 September 2013

Risk factors for surgical site infections following spinal fusion procedures: a case-control study

scientific article published on October 2011

Role of communication systems in coordinating supervising anesthesiologists' activities outside of operating rooms

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Root causes of intraoperative hypoglycemia: a case series

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Scheduling of cases in an ambulatory center.

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Sevoflurane versus halothane for general anesthesia in pediatric patients: a comparative study of vital signs, induction, and emergence

scientific article published in May 1995

Statistical modeling of average and variability of time to extubation for meta-analysis comparing desflurane to sevoflurane

scientific article published on 9 October 2009

Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify PACU staffing to minimize delays in admission from ORs.

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Strategies to reduce delays in admission into a postanesthesia care unit from operating rooms.

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Supervising anesthesiologists cannot be effectively compared according to their patients' postanesthesia care unit admission pain scores

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Systematic criteria for type and screen based on procedure's probability of erythrocyte transfusion

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Technology diffusion of anesthesia information management systems into academic anesthesia departments in the United States.

scientific article published in March 2014

The Distributions of Weekday Discharge Times at Acute Care Hospitals in the State of Florida were Static from 2010 to 2018

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

The changing scope of difficult airway management.

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The design and implementation of an automated system for logging clinical experiences using an anesthesia information management system

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

The impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: a tutorial using data from an Australian hospital.

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The value proposition of anesthesia information management systems.

scientific article published on December 2008

Typical savings from each minute reduction in tardy first case of the day starts

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Validation of a system to detect scheduled drug diversion by anesthesia care providers

scientific article published on 25 April 2011

Validation of statistical methods to compare cancellation rates on the day of surgery.

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Validity and usefulness of a method to monitor surgical services' average bias in scheduled case durations

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Value of a scheduled duration quantified in terms of equivalent numbers of historical cases

scientific article published on 3 June 2013

Variability in Large Language Models’ Responses to Medical Licensing and Certification Examinations. Comment on “How Does ChatGPT Perform on the United States Medical Licensing Examination? The Implications of Large Language Models for Medical Educa

scientific article published in 2023

[Allocating and scheduling operating room time]

scientific article published on 01 January 2005