Franklin Dexter

Overview

Best Publications

• 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.

  Catherine McIntosh;Franklin Dexter;Richard H Epstein

  440
  Citations

• An Operating Room Scheduling Strategy to Maximize the Use of Operating Room Block Time: Computer Simulation of Patient Scheduling and Survey of Patients' Preferences for Surgical Waiting Time

  Franklin Dexter;Alex Macario;Rodney D. Traub;Margaret Hopwood

  426
  Citations

• How to schedule elective surgical cases into specific operating rooms to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time.

  Franklin Dexter;Rodney D. Traub

  410
  Citations

• Perioperative COVID-19 Defense: An Evidence-Based Approach for Optimization of Infection Control and Operating Room Management.

  Franklin Dexter;Michelle C. Parra;Jeremiah R. Brown;Randy W. Loftus

  343
  Citations

• Analysis of Strategies to Decrease Postanesthesia Care Unit Costs

  Franklin Dexter;John H. Tinker

  325
  Citations

• Analysis of statistical tests to compare visual analog scale measurements among groups.

  Franklin Dexter;David H. Chestnut

  299
  Citations

• Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times.

  Franklin Dexter;Richard H Epstein;Rodney D Traub;Yan Xiao

  295
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• Development of a measure of patient satisfaction with monitored anesthesia care: the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale.

  Franklin Dexter;John Aker;Will A. Wright

  264
  Citations

• Which Algorithm for Scheduling Add-on Elective Cases Maximizes Operating Room Utilization? Use of Bin Packing Algorithms and Fuzzy Constraints in Operating Room Management

  Franklin Dexter;Alex Macario;Rodney D. Traub

  257
  Citations

• Operating room managers' use of integer programming for assigning block time to surgical groups: a case study.

  John T. Blake;Franklin Dexter;Joan Donald

  228
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• Use of operating room information system data to predict the impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs

  Franklin Dexter;Amr E. Abouleish;Richard H. Epstein;Charles W. Whitten

  228
  Citations

• Decreases in anesthesia-controlled time cannot permit one additional surgical operation to be reliably scheduled during the workday.

  Franklin Dexter;Stacy Coffin;John H. Tinker

  218
  Citations

• Impact of surgical sequencing on post anesthesia care unit staffing.

  Eric Marcon;Franklin Dexter

  217
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• Electroencephalographic Burst Suppression Is Not Required to Elicit Maximal Neuroprotection from Pentobarbital in a Rat Model of Focal Cerebral Ischemia

  David S. Warner;Seiji Takaoka;Bo Wu;Paula S. Ludwig

  189
  Citations

• Theoretical Analysis of Cerebral Venous Blood Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation as an Index of Cerebral Oxygenation During Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Counterproposal to the ???Luxury Perfusion??? Hypothesis

  Franklin Dexter;Bradley J. Hindman

  185
  Citations

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

  Franklin Dexter;Eric Marcon;Richard H. Epstein;Johannes Ledolter

  178
  Citations

• Hospital profitability per hour of operating room time can vary among surgeons.

  Alex Macario;Franklin Dexter;Rodney D. Traub

  178
  Citations

• Bayesian Prediction Bounds and Comparisons of Operating Room Times Even for Procedures with Few or No Historic Data

  Franklin Dexter;Johannes Ledolter

  174
  Citations

• What are the most important risk factors for a patient's developing intraoperative hypothermia?

  Alex Macario;Franklin Dexter

  170
  Citations

• Estimating the duration of a case when the surgeon has not recently scheduled the procedure at the surgical suite.

  Alex Macario;Franklin Dexter

  170
  Citations