My new paper, published on line 03 December 2020. The paper introduces a new methodology to monitor surgery duration, using Statistical Process Control (SPC). It may be found at: https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.2813.
This is the second in a series of three papers addressing surgery duration. The first paper, published on line 07 May 2020:
An explanatory bi-variate model for surgery-duration and its empirical validation
It may be found at: https://doi.org/10.1080/23737484.2020.1740066.
A third paper, addressing estimation of operating-room utilization-rate for differently-distributed surgery times, is under review.
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