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The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room
The planning fallacy posits that humans tend to underestimate the amount of time needed to complete a project and that greater complexity results in a larger difference in that estimation. If this phenomenon is present in the orthopedic operating room, it could lead to negative impacts on patients,...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7854319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552753 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12433 |
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author | Katt, Brian M Tawfik, Amr Lau, Vincent Padua, Fortunato Fletcher, Daniel Stamos, Bruce Aita, Daren Conte, Evan Saxena, Arjun Hornstein, Joshua |
author_facet | Katt, Brian M Tawfik, Amr Lau, Vincent Padua, Fortunato Fletcher, Daniel Stamos, Bruce Aita, Daren Conte, Evan Saxena, Arjun Hornstein, Joshua |
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description | The planning fallacy posits that humans tend to underestimate the amount of time needed to complete a project and that greater complexity results in a larger difference in that estimation. If this phenomenon is present in the orthopedic operating room, it could lead to negative impacts on patients, their families, and physicians themselves. Nine fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons at one institution were asked to give an estimate of their operative and total room times over the course of three months. Over 759 cases, the surgeons underestimated the total room times by 17.3% (p = 0.034) but did not underestimate their operative times (p = 0.590). The surgeons improved estimation of their operative time for all cases from 13.6 to 10.9 minutes of their actual time (p = 0.031) by comparing the absolute difference for the surgeons’ first 25% to the last 25% of cases. Procedures performed at the hospital underestimated operative and total room times by 8.9% and 7.4% compared to the ambulatory center, which overestimated operative times by 6.0% and underestimated total room times by 3.8% (p < 0.001). We found that the planning fallacy does exist in certain situations within the orthopedic operating room. |
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spelling | pubmed-78543192021-02-04 The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room Katt, Brian M Tawfik, Amr Lau, Vincent Padua, Fortunato Fletcher, Daniel Stamos, Bruce Aita, Daren Conte, Evan Saxena, Arjun Hornstein, Joshua Cureus Orthopedics The planning fallacy posits that humans tend to underestimate the amount of time needed to complete a project and that greater complexity results in a larger difference in that estimation. If this phenomenon is present in the orthopedic operating room, it could lead to negative impacts on patients, their families, and physicians themselves. Nine fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons at one institution were asked to give an estimate of their operative and total room times over the course of three months. Over 759 cases, the surgeons underestimated the total room times by 17.3% (p = 0.034) but did not underestimate their operative times (p = 0.590). The surgeons improved estimation of their operative time for all cases from 13.6 to 10.9 minutes of their actual time (p = 0.031) by comparing the absolute difference for the surgeons’ first 25% to the last 25% of cases. Procedures performed at the hospital underestimated operative and total room times by 8.9% and 7.4% compared to the ambulatory center, which overestimated operative times by 6.0% and underestimated total room times by 3.8% (p < 0.001). We found that the planning fallacy does exist in certain situations within the orthopedic operating room. Cureus 2021-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7854319/ /pubmed/33552753 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12433 Text en Copyright © 2021, Katt et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Orthopedics Katt, Brian M Tawfik, Amr Lau, Vincent Padua, Fortunato Fletcher, Daniel Stamos, Bruce Aita, Daren Conte, Evan Saxena, Arjun Hornstein, Joshua The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room |
title | The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room |
title_full | The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room |
title_fullStr | The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room |
title_full_unstemmed | The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room |
title_short | The Planning Fallacy in the Orthopedic Operating Room |
title_sort | planning fallacy in the orthopedic operating room |
topic | Orthopedics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7854319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552753 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12433 |
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