Incorrectly Charted Operating Rooms, With Resulting Overlapping Times, Corrected Using Meta-Data From Monitors Transmitting Pulse Oximetry Measurements

Franklin Dexter; Michael G Pomeroy; Anil A Marian; Unyime S Ituk; Richard H Epstein

doi:10.1213/XAA.0000000000001917

Incorrectly Charted Operating Rooms, With Resulting Overlapping Times, Corrected Using Meta-Data From Monitors Transmitting Pulse Oximetry Measurements

Franklin Dexter, Michael G Pomeroy, Anil A Marian, Unyime S Ituk Richard H Epstein

A&A practice, Vol.19(2), p.e01917

2025-02-01

: https://doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000001917

: 39950703

Electronic Health Records

Female

Humans

Operating Rooms

Oximetry - instrumentation

Retrospective Studies

Recorded operating rooms (ORs) in electronic health records can differ from the actual anesthetizing locations. A retrospective cohort of cases revealed a 40% (846/2123) room location error rate in the obstetrical (OB) suite compared to 0.03% (18/56,044) in 3 large surgical suites. Using meta-data providing physical locations of monitors transmitting pulse oximetry measurements and technicians' manual logs of replacement monitors, all actual ORs of the cases were determined. Simply identifying listed overlaps of cases in the same OR to identify potential location errors was insufficient for OB because surgical cases were infrequently ongoing simultaneously. We recommend overlap checking by suite.

: Incorrectly Charted Operating Rooms, With Resulting Overlapping Times, Corrected Using Meta-Data From Monitors Transmitting Pulse Oximetry Measurements
: Franklin Dexter - University of Iowa
Michael G Pomeroy - University of Iowa
Anil A Marian - University of Iowa
Unyime S Ituk - University of Iowa
Richard H Epstein - University of Miami
: A&A practice, Vol.19(2), p.e01917
: Miller School of Medicine; UMMG Department of Anesthesiology
: English
: Journal article
: 39950703
: 991032559407002976