Influence of time management on quality of care of operating room for vitrectomy

Objective To explore the influence of time management on quality of care of operating room forvitrectomy. Methods A total of 124 patients undergoing vitrectomy underwent routine operation management as control group from January to June 2013, while 189 patients with vitrectomy received time management operation as experimental group. We accounted the operative quantity, the average operative quantity for each operating room daily, average time of each operations, and assessment of quality management in operating room. Results Before time management, there was 124 cases of vitrectomy, but 189 cases after time management with 52.4% increase, and the average number of operation daily was climbed in the experimental group compared the control group (t=-2.540, P<0.05). The average time of each operations were (124.3±15.6)min in the experimental group and (153.6±18.9)min in the control group (t=8.659, P<0.01), and the satisfaction of hand over, nurses to doctors′ job, doctors to nurses′ job, and patients to operation were (85.3±5.6), (91.3±2.1), (92.6±3.8) and (93.1±4.1) in the experimental group, which were higher than these of the control group (t=2.653, -5.236, -4.968, -5.245; P<0.05). Conclusions The implementation of time management improves the time efficacy and the satisfaction of nurses to nursing management and doctors to nurses′ cooperation, regulates medical staffs′ behavior, and also promotes the satisfaction of patients to operation effect. Key words: Time management; Vitrectomy; Quality of care