A Data Verification Process for Improving Operating Room Performance

This paper outlines a data verification process for surgery records. The process focuses on identifying invalid records and standardizing data fields for large scaled analyses that measure surgery department efficiencies and surgeon performance. An overview of the purpose and development of the process is given. Results from over thirty hospitals indicate that the most common verification category involves incomplete records. It is planned that the conference presentation will further discuss the impact of data verification on performance improvement initiatives in the operating room as well as overall guidelines for data-driven projects in the hospital environment.