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The Value of Auditing the Frequency of Inhalational Anesthetics With a Combination of Very Low Bispectral Index and High Fraction of the Age-Adjusted Minimum Alveolar Concentration

Article • Cureus, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Frequencies of patient-reported sore throat, hoarseness, dysphagia, and high airway cuff pressures when manometers are used

Article • JCA Advances, December 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 90% of elective anesthetics have been ambulatory: A retrospective analysis of statewide data in Florida from 2010 through 2022

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Chlorhexidine Wipes with Educational Feedback Are Effective at Reducing Axilla and Groin Bacterial Contamination at the Start of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Importance of Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) Emitter Configuration for the Attenuation of Staphylococcus aureus and Candida auris Pathogens

Article • Cureus, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
The impact of spinal versus general anesthesia on the variability of surgical times: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Importance of Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) Emitter Configuration for Clostridioides difficile Attenuation

Article • Cureus, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
International Comparisons of Hospitals’ Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit Lengths of Stay Show Most Patients Need 30 minutes or Less Recovery Time to Advance From a 1 Nurse: 2 Patient Staffing Ratio

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, October 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Procedure-adjusted incidences of postoperative hospital admissions are not associated with differences in the quality of anesthesiologists’ clinical supervision or nurse anesthetists’ work habits

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, October 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
An Analysis of Ultraviolet-C Light Irradiation in Reducing Bacterial Contamination of the Anesthesia Work Area

Article • Anesthesiology, September 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Larger anesthesia practitioner per operating room ratios are needed to prevent unnecessary non-operative time than to mitigate patient risk: A narrative review

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Positive predictive value of administrative diagnosis codes, for all patient encounters in the electronic health record, to detect postoperative infections: Retrospective cohort study after cesarean delivery

Article • JCA Advances, September 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Frequently Touched Sites in the Intensive Care Unit Environment Returning 100 Colony-Forming Units per Surface Area Sampled Are Associated With Increased Risk of Major Bacterial Pathogen Detection

Article • Cureus, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effect of a non-reactive absorbent with or without environmentally oriented electronic feedback on anesthesia provider's fresh gas flow rates: A greening initiative

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Counting episodes of poor-quality faculty anesthesiologists' supervision and anesthesia residents' work habits among reported vignettes of insufficient professionalism

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Surface Cleaning with a Microfiber Cloth and Water followed by Ultraviolet-C Light Exposure Achieves Non-Inferior Disinfection of a Pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus Strain versus Use of Germicidal Wipes.

Article • Cureus, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantifying Cooperation among Investigators with Substantial Production in Operating Room Management [Letter]

Article • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparison between cold and sharp modalities for testing sensory block in neuraxial labour analgesia: a prospective observational trial

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, August 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Few Anesthesia-Related Adverse Events in a Retrospective Cohort Study of Patients With Unanticipated Intensive Care Unit Admission After Ambulatory Procedures

Article • A&A Practice, August 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Inhalational Agent Dosing Behaviors of Anesthesia Practitioners Cause Variability in End-Tidal Concentrations at the End of Surgery and Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation

Article • Cureus, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Studying the Association of Enterococcal and Gram-Negative Pathogens with Longitudinal Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Among Anesthesia Workspace Reservoirs on Future Surgical Dates

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Evaluating Competence of Anesthesiology Residents Including Procedures Performed Successfully and Entrustment Scales

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Poor Concordance Between Intensive Care Unit Patients’ and Family Members’ Patient Dignity Inventory Scores Despite Communication of Dignity-Related Distress

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Predictive Validity of Anesthesiologists’ Quality of Clinical Supervision and Nurse Anesthetists’ Work Habits Assessed by Their Associations With Operating Room Times

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Twenty-five years of previous research establish that operating room utilization is an invalid metric of theatre productivity

Article • JVS-Vascular Insights, July 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesia Practitioners’ Goals for Sevoflurane Minimum Alveolar Concentration at the End of Surgery and the Incidence of Prolonged Extubations: A Prospective and Observational Study

Article • Cureus, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Incremental Societal Costs of Perioperative Complications Following Adult Elective Inpatient Major Therapeutic Surgery in the State of Florida: A Seven-Year Retrospective Epidemiological Analysis

Article • Cureus, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Survey of anesthesia department chairs about the environmental sustainability initiatives of their programs

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, June 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Generalized Confidence Intervals for Ratios of Standard Deviations Based on Log-Normal Distribution when Times Follow Weibull Distributions

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reducing airborne transmissible diseases in perioperative environments. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 133:19–23

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, June 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lateness of Acetaminophen and Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Administrations in a Retrospective Cohort of Medication Administration Records Among Patients After Cesarean Delivery

Article • Cureus, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Dignity-related distress and recall among alert, non-delirious critically ill patients

Article • Palliative & Supportive Care, May 2024, Cambridge University Press

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of Validity of Absolute Percentage Errors in Estimated Operating Room Case Durations as a Measure of Operating Room Performance: A Focused Narrative Review

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Preventing Prolonged Times to Awakening While Mitigating the Risk of Patient Awareness: Gas Man Computer Simulations of Sevoflurane Consumption From Brief, High Fresh Gas Flow Before the End of Surgery

Article • Cureus, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Fundamentals of operating room allocation and case scheduling to minimize the inefficiency of use of the time

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, March 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Patient and Operational Factors Do Not Substantively Affect the Annual Departmental Quality of Anesthesiologists’ Clinical Supervision and Nurse Anesthetists’ Work Habits

Article • Cureus, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Survey of Lactating Anesthesiologists Using Wearable Breast Milk Pumps While Working in Operating Rooms and Other Clinical Settings

Article • A&A Practice, March 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A threshold of 100 or more colony-forming units on the anesthesia machine predicts bacterial pathogen detection: a retrospective laboratory-based analysis

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Modeling daily veterinary anesthetist patient care hours and probabilities of exceeding critical thresholds

Article • American Journal of Veterinary Research, February 2024, American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Introduction to Bayesian Analyses for Clinical Research

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Association between an anesthesia department development program for junior faculty and long-term production of publications: A longitudinal cohort study

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimation of the contribution to intraoperative pathogen transmission from bacterial contamination of patient nose, patient groin and axilla, anesthesia practitioners' hands, anesthesia machine, and intravenous lumen

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Role of Anesthesia Providers in Infection Control

Article • ASA Monitor, January 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Relative Efficacy of Multiple Syringe Tip Disinfection Techniques Against Virulent Staphylococcus Contamination

Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, January 2024, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
General anesthesia techniques reducing the time to satisfy phase I post-anesthesia care unit discharge criteria: Narrative review of randomized clinical trials and cohort studies studying unit bypass, supplemented with computer simulation

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, December 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of Benefit of Adjusting Adaptively Daily Invitations for the Evaluation of the Quality of Anesthesiologists’ Supervision and Nurse Anesthetists’ Work Habits

Article • Cureus, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Systematic review with meta-analysis of relative risk of prolonged times to tracheal extubation with desflurane versus sevoflurane or isoflurane

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Iowa satisfaction with anesthesia scale for use in Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Article • Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition), November 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bibliometric Analysis of Contributions of Anesthesiology Journals and Anesthesiologists to Operating Room Management Science

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Narrative Review of Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation After General Anesthesia With Intubation and Extubation in the Operating Room

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Allocation and Case Scheduling Have the Largest Effect on Underutilized Time

Article • AORN Journal, September 2023, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Associations Between Fresh Gas Flow and Duration of Anesthetic on the Maximum Potential Benefit of Anesthetic Gas Capture in Operating Rooms and in Postanesthesia Care Units to Capture Waste Anesthetic Gas

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Narrative review of mathematical and psychological studies of staff scheduling for holidays as applicable to anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Overall anesthesia department quality of clinical supervision of trainees over a year evaluated using mixed effects models

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Retrospective cohort study of anaesthesia machines shows low bacterial contamination can be achieved with surface disinfection

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, August 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Characterizing the Molecular Epidemiology of Anaesthesia Work Area Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus ST5

Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, July 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bacterial contamination of syringe tips after anaesthesia care with use of disinfectable needleless closed connector devices

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, July 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
La plupart des patient·es hospitalisé·es à risque d’infection bactérienne bénéficient d’une anesthésie : implications pour les pratiques de contrôle des infections liées à l’espace de travail d’anesthésie

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Interpretable machine learning models for hospital readmission prediction: a two-step extracted regression tree approach

Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Forecasting Caseload of Critically Ill Patients Who Are Alert and Without Delirium for at Least Two Consecutive Days for the Assessment of Their Psychological Distress

Article • Cureus, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Over-Application and Interviewing in the 2021 United States Primary Care Virtual Recruitment Season

Article • Cureus, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
The efficacy of multifaceted versus single anesthesia work area infection control measures and the importance of surgical site infection follow-up duration

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Exceedance Probabilities of Log-normal Distributions for One Group, Two Groups, and Meta-analysis of Multiple Two-group Studies, With Application to Analyses of Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Response Variability of Large Language Models (Preprint)

Article • April 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Variability in Large Language Models’ Responses to Medical Licensing and Certification (Preprint)

Article • JMIR Medical Education, April 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Patients Undergoing Elective Inpatient Major Therapeutic Procedures in Florida Had No Significant Change in Hospital Mortality or Mortality-Related Comorbidities Between 2007 and 2019

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence on the incidence of prolonged times to tracheal extubation from the anesthesia practitioner having completed few prior cases with the surgeon

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, April 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantifying and Interpreting Inequality in Surgical Site Infections per Quarter Among Anesthetizing Locations and Specialties

Article • Cureus, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Association of surgeons’ gender with elective surgical lists in the State of Florida is explained by differences in mean operative caseloads

Article • PLoS ONE, March 2023, PLOS

Dr Franklin Dexter
Absence of a Comprehensive Literature Search Protocol in a Systematic Review of Published Studies Describing Operating Room Optimization

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of Useful Predictors of Dignity-Related Distress Among the Critically Ill as Assessed With the Patient Dignity Inventory

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Logistic Regression and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Whether Intensive Care Patients Who Are Alert and Without Delirium Remain As Such for at Least Two More Days

Article • Cureus, February 2023, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of validity and generalizability of predicted probabilities of surgical case cancellation from excluding consideration of preoperative anesthesia evaluation

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Long-term capacity planning for obstetric surgical suites using quantile linear regression

Article • Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, January 2023, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Staphylococcus aureus Transmission in the Anaesthesia Work Area Has Greater Risk of Association with Development of Surgical Site Infection when Resistant to the Prophylactic Antibiotic Administered for Surgery

Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, January 2023, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
20: DIGNITY-RELATED DISTRESS AMONG THE CRITICALLY ILL: CONCORDANCE BETWEEN PATIENT AND FAMILY

Article • Critical Care Medicine, December 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Epidemiology of Enterococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Enterobacter Species Transmission in the Pediatric Anesthesia Work Area Environment With and Without Practitioner Use of a Personalized Body-Worn Alcohol D...

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Frequency of Follow-Up Assessment for Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Among Alert and Non-Delirious Critically Ill Patients

Article • Cureus, November 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Variability of the times remaining in surgical cases and the importance of knowing when closure has started

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, November 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Association Between the Community Prevalence of COVID-19 and Daily Unscheduled Absences of Anesthesiologists, Nurse Anesthetists, and Residents in an Academic Anesthesia Department

Article • Cureus, October 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Patients in Iowa Counties Lacking Hospitals With Labor and Delivery Services Disproportionately Receive Care at Level III Maternal Care Hospitals When Undergoing Cesarean Delivery: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study

Article • Cureus, October 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Overestimation of the Causal Effects of Medications on Delirium During Postoperative Hospital Days

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Scheduling staff for ambulatory anaesthesia

Article • Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, October 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Intubation biomechanics: Computational modeling to identify methods to minimize cervical spine motion and spinal cord strain during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation in an intact cervical spine

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, October 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Earlier studies of prolonged times to tracheal extubation after end of surgery

Article • Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, October 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
American Society of Anesthesiologists' Relative Value Guide

Article • Anaesthesia, September 2022, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Molecular characterisation and epidemiology of transmission of intraoperative Staphylococcus aureus isolates stratified by vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)

Article • Infection Prevention in Practice, September 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimating costs of anesthesia supplies for intraoperative infection control

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, August 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Importance of Targeting Intraoperative Transmission of Bacteria with Antibiotic Resistance and Strain Characteristics

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, August 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
More accurate, unbiased predictions of operating room times increase labor productivity with the same staff scheduling provided allocated hours are increased

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, August 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prophylactic Methylergonovine and Oxytocin Compared With Oxytocin Alone in Patients Undergoing Intrapartum Cesarean Birth

Article • Obstetrics and Gynecology, July 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cesarean delivery availability in Iowa was not constrained by anesthesia workforce limitations: retrospective cohort study of inpatient surgery case counts

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, July 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Evaluation of the start of surgical closure as a milestone for forecasting the time remaining to exit the operating room: A retrospective, observational cohort study

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, July 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Earlier Studies in Anesthesia & Analgesia of Case Scheduling and Cancellation Within the Week of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Assigning Cases to Operating Rooms With Objectives That Include Leveling Workflow in the Post-anesthesia Care Unit

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, June 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Feasibility of Anesthesiologists Giving Nurse Anesthetists 30-Minute Lunch Breaks and 15-Minute Morning Breaks at a University’s Facilities

Article • Cureus, May 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Relationship Between Glottic View and Intubation Force During Macintosh and Airtraq Laryngoscopy and Intubation

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Benchmarking Surgeons’ Gender and Year of Medical School Graduation Associated With Monthly Operative Workdays for Multispecialty Groups

Article • Cureus, May 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effectiveness and feasibility of an evidence-based intraoperative infection control program targeting improved basic measures; a post-implementation prospective case-cohort study

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
More surgery in December among US patients with commercial insurance is offset by unrelated but lesser surgery among patients with Medicare insurance

Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, April 2022, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Case duration prediction and estimating time remaining in ongoing cases

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, April 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Evidence-based intraoperative infection control measures plus feedback are associated with attenuation of SARS-CoV-2 detection in operating rooms

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, April 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effect of Insufficient Interaction on the Evaluation of Anesthesiologists’ Quality of Clinical Supervision by Anesthesiology Residents and Fellows

Article • Cureus, March 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Decision-making for end-of-day relief of anesthesiologists based on equity can decrease group productivity: Historical cohort study from a hospital with both anesthesia residents and nurse anesthetists

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, March 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cancellation rates after virtual, telephone-based preoperative anesthesia evaluations

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Binomial entropy of anesthesiologists’ ratings of nurse anesthetists’ clinical performance explains information loss when adjusting evaluations for rater leniency

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, February 2022, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Similarities Between Pediatric and General Hospitals Based on Fundamental Attributes of Surgery Including Cases Per Surgeon Per Workday

Article • Cureus, January 2022, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
The effect of few historical data on the performance of sample average approximation method for operating room scheduling

Article • International Transactions in Operational Research, January 2022, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cervical Injury after Videolaryngoscopy in Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Comment

Article • Anesthesiology, December 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of Time Stamp Data to Determine Direct Associations Between Predictive Error in Case Durations and Operating Room Utilization

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Average number of anesthetics still in progress in the early evening increased at least proportionally to the numbers of anesthetizing locations in the morning: A retrospective, long-term longitudinal study at two large hospitals

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, December 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Most surgeons' daily elective lists in Florida comprise only 1 or 2 elective cases, making percent utilization unreliable for planning individual surgeons' block time

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, December 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Managing capacity for urgent surgery: staffing, staff scheduling in-house or on-call from home, and work assignments

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, December 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Intubation Biomechanics: Clinical Implications of Computational Modeling of Intervertebral Motion and Spinal Cord Strain during Tracheal Intubation in an Intact Cervical Spine

Article • Anesthesiology, November 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Low Prevalence of Designated Lactation Spaces at Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers in Iowa: An Educational Tool for Graduates’ Job Selection

Article • A&A Practice, November 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Elements of Pregnancy and Parenthood Policies of Importance to Medical Students and Included in a Sample of Medical Schools' Websites and Student Handbooks

Article • Women s Health Reports, November 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Design of Overnight Trials for the Evaluation of the Number of Operating Rooms That Can Be Disinfected by an Ultraviolet Light Disinfection Robotic System

Article • Cureus, October 2021, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
An assessment of the impact of recommended anesthesia work area cleaning procedures on intraoperative SARS-CoV-2 contamination, a case-series analysis

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, October 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Impact of anesthesia resident staff assignment decisions on nurse anesthetist and anesthesia resident staff scheduling and productivity: Tutorial using data from a pediatric hospital

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, September 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reducing Over-Interviewing in the Anesthesiology Residency Match

Article • Cureus, August 2021, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Narrative review of neuraxial potassium chloride administration errors: clinical features, human factors, and prevention measures

Article • Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, August 2021, BMJ

Dr Franklin Dexter
Average and longest expected treatment times for ultraviolet light disinfection of rooms

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, August 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
The anesthetizing sites supervised to anesthesiologist ratio is an invalid surrogate for group productivity in academic anesthesia departments when used without consideration of the corresponding managerial decisions

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Multicollinearity in Logistic Regression Models

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Simply Adjusting for Schedulers’ Bias in Estimated Case Durations Can Accomplish the Same Objectives of Improving Predictions as Use of Machine Learning

Article • JAMA Surgery, July 2021, American Medical Association (AMA)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Briefest Time to Perform a Series of Preoperative Nerve Blocks in Multiple Patients: A Simulation Study

Article • Cureus, July 2021, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Implications of the log-normal distribution for updating estimates of the time remaining until ready for phase I post-anesthesia care unit discharge

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, June 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Minimising the number of cancellations at the time of a severe lack of postanesthesia care unit beds or nurses

Article • International Journal of Production Research, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sustained management of the variability in work hours among anesthesiologists providing patient care in operating rooms and not on call to work late if necessary

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2021, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Design of Clinical Trials Evaluating Sedation in Critically Ill Adults Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation: Recommendations From Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research (SCEPTER) Recommendation III

Article • Critical Care Medicine, April 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Proportions of Surgical Patients Discharged Home the Same or the Next Day Are Sufficient Data to Assess Cases’ Contributions to Hospital Occupancy

Article • Cureus, March 2021, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Suggested Work Guidelines, Based on Operating Room Data, for Departments with a Breast Milk Pumping Supervising Anesthesiologist

Article • Breastfeeding Medicine, March 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Dr Franklin Dexter
Pregnancy and Motherhood for Trainees in Anesthesiology: A Survey of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

Article • Journal of Education in Perioperative Medicine, March 2021, Society for Education in Anesthesia

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantifying and interpreting inequality of surgical site infections among operating rooms

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Percentages of Cases in Operating Rooms of Sufficient Duration to Accommodate a 30-Minute Breast Milk Pumping Session by Anesthesia Residents or Nurse Anesthetists

Article • Cureus, January 2021, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Implications of anesthesiology resident availability on first-case staffing

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, December 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Caseload is increased by resequencing cases before and on the day of surgery at ambulatory surgery centers where initial patient recovery is in operating rooms and cleanup times are longer than typical

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, December 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparisons of unscheduled absences among categories of anesthesia practitioners, including anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and anesthesia residents

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, December 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sample times for surveillance of S. aureus transmission to monitor effectiveness and provide feedback on intraoperative infection control

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, December 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Representation of women as editors in major pain journals

Article • Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, November 2020, BMJ

Dr Franklin Dexter
Erratum for: Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Endpoints and methods for valid and reliable ranking of anesthesiologists' clinical performance

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparison of Percentage Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation Between a Japanese Teaching Hospital and One in the United States, Without and With a Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Forecasting the Probability That Each Surgical Case Will Either Be Ambulatory or the Patient Will Remain in the Hospital Overnight Versus Having a Length of Stay of Two or More Days

Article • Cureus, October 2020, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating room air delivery design to protect patient and surgical site results in particles released at surgical table having greater concentration along walls of the room than at the instrument tray

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, October 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Association between leniency of anesthesiologists when evaluating certified registered nurse anesthetists and when evaluating didactic lectures

Article • Health Care Management Science, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Building a Brain Tumor Practice: Objective Analysis of Referral Patterns and Implications for the Growth of a Subspecialty Surgical Program

Article • Cureus, September 2020, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Appropriate operating room time allocations and half-day block time for low caseload proceduralists, including anesthesiologist pain medicine physicians in the State of Florida

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Changes in current employment positions after taking an operating room management course content by physicians and non-physicians and potential use of the content

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, September 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating room management when the binding constraint on surgery is availability of personal protective equipment

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Policy Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Light of Most Patients (≥72%) Spending Only One Night at the Hospital After Elective, Major Therapeutic Procedures

Article • Cureus, August 2020, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of recall after sedation for cataract surgery and its effect on the validity of measuring patient satisfaction

Article • Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, August 2020, The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KAMJE)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Interview Data Highlight Importance of “Same-State” on Anesthesiology Residency Match

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sex-Specific Intubation Biomechanics: Intubation Forces Are Greater in Male Than in Female Patients, Independent of Body Weight

Article • Cureus, June 2020, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Predictive Model for Patient Census and Ventilator Requirements at Individual Hospitals During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Preliminary Technical Report

Article • Cureus, June 2020, Cureus, Inc.

Dr Franklin Dexter
Demonstrability of analytics solutions and shared knowledge of statistics and operating room management improves expected performance of small teams in correctly solving problems and making good decisions

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, June 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Case Series of Adaptive Changes in Clinical Practice and Trainee Education for Cesarean Delivery due to Drug Shortages of 0.75% Hyperbaric Bupivacaine in 2018

Article • A&A Practice, May 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sample sizes for surveillance of S. aureus transmission to monitor effectiveness and provide feedback on intraoperative infection control including for COVID-19

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, May 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bland–Altman analysis for bias in estimates of scheduled versus actual times of operating room entry

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Importance of oral and nasal decontamination for patients undergoing anesthetics during the COVID-19 era

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reliability and Validity of Performance Evaluations of Pain Medicine Clinical Faculty by Residents and Fellows Using a Supervision Scale

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Effect of Improving Basic Preventive Measures in the Perioperative Arena on Staphylococcus aureus Transmission and Surgical Site Infections

Article • JAMA Network Open, March 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Futility of Cluster Designs at Individual Hospitals to Study Surgical Site Infections and Interventions Involving the Installation of Capital Equipment in Operating Rooms

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prolonged tracheal extubation time after glioma surgery was associated with lack of familiarity between the anesthesia provider and the operating neurosurgeon. A retrospective, observational study

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, March 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Steps for infection control in operating rooms and case scheduling and workflow.

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Time is Money: Punctuality is Priceless

Article • Journal of the American College of Surgeons, March 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Late first-case of the day starts do not cause greater minutes of over-utilized time at an endoscopy suite with 8-hour workdays and late running rooms. A historical cohort study

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Distributions of Weekday Discharge Times at Acute Care Hospitals in the State of Florida were Static from 2010 to 2018

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Transcultural validation of a French version of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale (ISAS-F)

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Surgical volume estimates using national or state databases can reasonably disregard missing cases from patients undergoing multiple surgeries on the same day other than for cardiac, vascular, and trauma cases

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, January 2020, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Decline of Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Cases Performed at Florida General Hospitals Between 2010 and 2018

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Fifteen Years of Research on Surgical Case Duration Prediction by Combining Preoperatively Available Service and Surgeon Data

Article • Journal of the American College of Surgeons, December 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
US critical access hospitals' listings of pain medicine physicians and other clinicians performing interventional pain procedures

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, December 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Annual Number of Spinal Cord Stimulation Procedures Performed in the State of Florida During 2018: Implications for Establishing Neuromodulation Centers of Excellence

Article • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface, November 2019, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Benefit of systematic selection of pairs of cases matched by surgical specialty for surveillance of bacterial transmission in operating rooms

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, November 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Assessment of anesthesia machine redesign on cleaning of the anesthesia machine using surface disinfection wipes

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, November 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hospitals with greater diversities of physiologically complex procedures do not achieve greater production of such inpatient surgical procedures

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, November 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Determination of Geolocations for Anesthesia Specialty Coverage and Standby Call Allowing Return to the Hospital Within a Specified Amount of Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Nurse anesthetists' preferences for anesthesiologists' participation in patient care at a large teaching hospital

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reliability of ranking anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists using leniency-adjusted clinical supervision and work habits scores

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Importance of operating room case scheduling on analyses of observed reductions in surgical site infections from the purchase and installation of capital equipment in operating rooms

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, October 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Re: The Role of Patient and Procedure Specific Factors in Urology Operating Room Perioperative Times

Article • Urology Practice, October 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Opportunity cost of mean 1.7 minutes of tardiness of late first case of the day starts

Article • The American Journal of Surgery, October 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Throughout the United States, pediatric patients undergoing ambulatory surgery enter the operating room and are discharged earlier in the day than are adults

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, September 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Trends in Direct Hospital Payments to Anesthesia Groups

Article • Anesthesiology, September 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Trust improves during one-day resident operating room management course preceded by directed study of required statistical content

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Improving intraoperative handoffs for ambulatory anesthesia: challenges and solutions for the anesthesiologist [Corrigendum]

Article • Local and Regional Anesthesia, July 2019, Dove Medical Press

Dr Franklin Dexter
Heterogeneity Among Hospitals in the Percentages of All Lumbosacral Epidural Steroid Injections Where the Patient Had Received 4 or More in the Previous Year

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Development and Validation of an Algorithm to Classify as Equivalent the Procedures in ICD-10-PCS That Differ Only by Laterality

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Economic Savings From Changing Anesthetic Agent Purchasing Must Include Costs Associated With Expected Changes in Case Times Known From Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Postanesthesia Care Unit Costs Are Heterogeneous Among Hospitals, Principally Determined by Delays in Patient Admission From Operating Rooms

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Unintended Consequences of Clinical Decision Support

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Limited Intragenerational Mobility of Surgical Caseload of Iowa Hospitals

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Response to BotulinumtoxinA in a migraine cohort with multiple comorbidities and widespread pain

Article • Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, May 2019, BMJ

Sean Mackey, Dr Franklin Dexter
Nurse anesthetists' evaluations of anesthesiologists' operating room performance are sensitive to anesthesiologists' years of postgraduate practice

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Improving intraoperative handoffs for ambulatory anesthesia: challenges and solutions for the anesthesiologist

Article • Local and Regional Anesthesia, May 2019, Dove Medical Press

Dr Franklin Dexter
Obtaining and Modeling Variability in Travel Times From Off-Site Satellite Clinics to Hospitals and Surgery Centers for Surgeons and Proceduralists Seeing Office Patients in the Morning and Performing a To-Follow List of Cases in the Afternoon

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthetic Management of Emergency Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke, Part 2: Integrating and Applying Observational Reports and Randomized Clinical Trials

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating room PathTrac analysis of current intraoperative Staphylococcus aureus transmission dynamics

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, April 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Provider Access to Legacy Electronic Anesthesia Records Following Implementation of an Electronic Health Record System

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter, Dr. Eric S Schwenk
Device implantation rates during inpatient surgery differ among payers at critical access versus other hospitals

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, March 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Tardiness of starts of surgical cases is not substantively greater when the preceding surgeon in an operating room is of a different versus the same specialty

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, March 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Unscheduled absences in a cohort of nurse anesthetists during a 3-year period: Statistical implications for the identification of outlier personnel

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2019, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of a substantive effect of insurance and the national US payment system on the relative distribution of surgical cases among hospitals in the State of Iowa: A retrospective, observational, cohort study

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, December 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of parameter uncertainty on the tardiness of the start of a surgical case following a preceding surgical case performed by a different surgeon

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, December 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management

Article • November 2018, Cambridge University Press

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of Annual Meetings of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and of Large National Surgical Societies on Caseloads of Major Therapeutic Procedures

Article • Journal of Medical Systems, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
At all hospitals in the State of Iowa over a decade, the number of cases performed during weekends or holidays increased approximately proportionally to the total caseload

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Desiccation tolerance is associated with Staphylococcus aureus hypertransmissibility, resistance and infection development in the operating room

Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, November 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Evaluating Patient-Centered Outcomes in Clinical Trials of Procedural Sedation, Part 2 Safety

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter, Professor Michael Garnet Irwin
Use and scoring of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale

Article • Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
High-risk Staphylococcus aureus transmission in the operating room: A call for widespread improvements in perioperative hand hygiene and patient decolonization practices

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, October 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Implications of variation by time of day in post-anaesthesia care unit length of stay for rational nurse staffing

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, October 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Time to recovery after general anesthesia at hospitals with and without a phase I post-anesthesia care unit: a historical cohort study

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Heterogeneity among hospitals statewide in percentage shares of the annual growth of surgical caseloads of inpatient and outpatient major therapeutic procedures

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Interchangeability of counts of cases and hours of cases for quantifying a hospital's change in workload among four-week periods of 1 year

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Many US hospital-affiliated freestanding ambulatory surgery centers are located on hospital campuses, relevant to interpretation of studies involving ambulatory surgery

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparing Anesthesia Durations Among Hospitals Based on Statistical Methods Described in Previous Publications in Anesthesia & Analgesia

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Database Quality and Access Issues Relevant to Research Using Anesthesia Information Management System Data

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Treating surgical turnover times as statistically independent events when testing interventions and mobile applications

Article • mHealth, July 2018, AME Publishing Company

Dr Franklin Dexter
Differences in the incidence and timing of reintubation in the postanesthesia care unit among large teaching hospitals

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hospitals with greater diversities of physiologically complex procedures do not achieve greater surgical growth in a market with stable numbers of such procedures

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has greater risk of transmission in the operating room than methicillin-sensitive S aureus

Article • American Journal of Infection Control, May 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Patient Survey of Referral From One Surgeon to Another to Reduce Maximum Waiting Time for Elective Surgery and Hours of Overutilized Operating Room Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Relative importance of strategies for improving the sample size selection and reporting of small randomized clinical trials in anesthesiology

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prioritizations of individual surgeons’ patients waiting for elective procedures: A systematic review and future directions

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, March 2018, Elsevier

Dr Samira A.Rahimi, Dr Franklin Dexter
The Anesthesiologist-Informatician

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Years Versus Days Between Successive Surgeries, After an Initial Outpatient Procedure, for the Median Patient Versus the Median Surgeon in the State of Iowa

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reductions in Average Lengths of Stays for Surgical Procedures Between the 2008 and 2014 United States National Inpatient Samples Were Not Associated With Greater Incidences of Use of Postacute Care Facilities

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of generalizability of observational studies' findings for turnover time reduction and growth in surgery based on the State of Iowa, where from one year to the next, most growth was attributable to surgeons performing only a few cases per week

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2018, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Perioperative Temperature Measurement Considerations Relevant to Reporting Requirements for National Quality Programs Using Data From Anesthesia Information Management Systems

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter, Dr. Eric S Schwenk
Intubation biomechanics: validation of a finite element model of cervical spine motion during endotracheal intubation in intact and injured conditions

Article • Journal of Neurosurgery Spine, January 2018, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Monte Carlo Simulations Comparing Fisher Exact Test and Unequal Variances t Test for Analysis of Differences Between Groups in Brief Hospital Lengths of Stay

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Incidence of non-physiologically complex surgical procedures performed in children: an Ontario population-based study of health administrative data

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Large Variability in the Diversity of Physiologically Complex Surgical Procedures Exists Nationwide Among All Hospitals Including Among Large Teaching Hospitals

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Validation of a New Method to Automatically Select Cases With Intraoperative Red Blood Cell Transfusion for Audit

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter, Dr. Eric S Schwenk
At most hospitals in the state of Iowa, most surgeons' daily lists of elective cases include only 1 or 2 cases: Individual surgeons' percentage operating room utilization is a consistently unreliable metric

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Validity of using a work habits scale for the daily evaluation of nurse anesthetists' clinical performance while controlling for the leniencies of the rating anesthesiologists

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
With directed study before a 4-day operating room management course, trust in the content did not change progressively during the classroom time

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analyses of Time to Recovery Including Time to Tracheal Extubation Need to Be Performed While Incorporating Their Probability Distribution

Article • Obesity Surgery, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of perioperative antibiotic administration in electronic medical records: correlations among patients addressed by analyzing control chart data using the batch means method

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bypass of an anesthesiologist-directed preoperative evaluation clinic results in greater first-case tardiness and turnover times

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter, Dr. Eric S Schwenk
Discharges with surgical procedures performed less often than once per month per hospital account for two-thirds of hospital costs of inpatient surgery

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
In reply: Clinical supervision: what does it mean to be better?

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Previous scientific findings in block time by surgeon and in releasing allocated operating room time

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, September 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Readmissions to Different Hospitals After Common Surgical Procedures and Consequences for Implementation of Perioperative Surgical Home Programs

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Uncommon combinations of ICD10-PCS or ICD-9-CM operative procedure codes account for most inpatient surgery at half of Texas hospitals

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Recommendations for Procedural Sedation Clinical Trials

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Erratum to “Anesthesiologists' perceptions of minimum acceptable work habits of nurse anesthetists” [J Clin Anesth 38 (2017) 107–110]

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Intraoperative Handoffs Among Anesthesia Providers Increase the Incidence of Documentation Errors for Controlled Drugs

Article • The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, August 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Workload, efficiency, and productivity following open access scheduling in a gastrointestinal endoscopy suite

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hypotension during induction of anaesthesia is neither a reliable nor a useful quality measure for comparison of anaesthetists’ performance

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, July 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter, Dr. Eric S Schwenk
In Response

Article • A & A Case Reports, June 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
For assessment of changes in intraoperative red blood cell transfusion practices over time, the pooled incidence of transfusion correlates highly with total units transfused

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, June 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Importance of relying on examples for both anesthesiologists and other physicians to assign unbiased American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classifications

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, June 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantitative Assessment of Statistical Reviews of Patient Safety Research Articles

Article • Journal of Patient Safety, June 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesiologists' perceptions of minimum acceptable work habits of nurse anesthetists

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Neuromuscular Monitoring as the Art of Probability

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale for emergency medicine procedures

Article • Emergency Medicine Australasia, April 2017, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Anesthesia Subspecialization Is Not Associated With Significantly Greater Quality of Supervision of Anesthesia Residents and Nurse Anesthetists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
In Response

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Measurement of faculty anesthesiologists’ quality of clinical supervision has greater reliability when controlling for the leniency of the rating anesthesia resident: a retrospective cohort study

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Letter by Dexter and Hindman Regarding Article, “Anesthesia Technique and Outcomes of Mechanical Thrombectomy in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke”

Article • Stroke, March 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Narrative Review of Statistical Reporting Checklists, Mandatory Statistical Editing, and Rectifying Common Problems in the Reporting of Scientific Articles

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hospitals with Briefer than Average Lengths of Stays for Common Surgical Procedures Do Not Have Greater Odds of Either Re-Admission Or Use of Short-Term Care Facilities

Article • March 2017, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
“Opt Out” and Access to Anesthesia Care for Elective and Urgent Surgeries among U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries

Article • Anesthesiology, March 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Evaluating Patient-Centered Outcomes in Clinical Trials of Procedural Sedation, Part 1 Efficacy

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter, Professor Michael Garnet Irwin
Mixed effects logistic regression modeling of daily evaluations of nurse anesthetists’ work habits adjusting for leniency of the rating anesthesiologists

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, March 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Content analysis of resident evaluations of faculty anesthesiologists: supervision encompasses some attributes of the professionalism core competency

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Development and validation of a structured query language implementation of the Elixhauser comorbidity index

Article • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effect of monetary incentives on first-case of the day starts

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Predicting odds of prolonged operative times

Article • The American Journal of Surgery, January 2017, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Factors substantively influencing numbers of surgical cases performed at a research hospital

Article • Annals of Research Hospitals, January 2017, AME Publishing Company

Dr Franklin Dexter
Diversity and Similarity of Anesthesia Procedures in the United States During and Among Regular Work Hours, Evenings, and Weekends

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Do Not Use Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models with Low-incidence Outcome Data to Compare Anesthesiologists in Your Department

Article • Anesthesiology, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
US National Anesthesia Workload on Saturday and Sunday Mornings

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
In Response

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Written Comments Made by Anesthesia Residents When Providing Below Average Scores for the Supervision Provided by the Faculty Anesthesiologist

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Risks to Patient Privacy from Publishing Data from Clinical Anesthesia Studies

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Controlled Substance Reconciliation Accuracy Improvement Using Near Real-Time Drug Transaction Capture from Automated Dispensing Cabinets

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Effect of “Opt-Out” Regulation on Access to Surgical Care for Urgent Cases in the United States

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Caroline Palmer and the History of Operating Room Management

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Constraints on the scheduling of urgent and emergency surgical cases: Surgeon, equipment, and anesthesiologist availability

Article • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, June 2016, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Growth in an Anesthesiologist- and Nurse Anesthetist-Supervised Sedation Nurse Program Using Propofol and Dexmedetomidine

Article • A & A Case Reports, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of Data and Formulas on Trust in Information from Journal Articles in an Operating Room Management Course

Article • A & A Case Reports, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
On the reciprocity of connections in weighted and unweighted networks

Article • Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

Dr Franklin Dexter
Factors affecting pre-operative assessment times

Article • Anaesthesia, May 2016, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Work Habits Are Valid Components of Evaluations of Anesthesia Residents Based on Faculty Anesthesiologists’ Daily Written Comments About Residents

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Amnesia of the Operating Room in the B-Unaware and BAG-RECALL Clinical Trials

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Economic and Environmental Considerations During Low Fresh Gas Flow Volatile Agent Administration After Change to a Nonreactive Carbon Dioxide Absorbent

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical analysis of differences in turnover times among operating theatres

Article • BMJ Quality & Safety, March 2016, BMJ

Dr Franklin Dexter
Decreasing the Hours That Anesthesiologists and Nurse Anesthetists Work Late by Making Decisions to Reduce the Hours of Over-Utilized Operating Room Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparing Policies for Case Scheduling Within 1 Day of Surgery by Markov Chain Models

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale for regional anesthesia

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, February 2016, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prolonged Operative Time to Extubation Is Not a Useful Metric for Comparing the Performance of Individual Anesthesia Providers

Article • Anesthesiology, February 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantifying the Diversity and Similarity of Surgical Procedures Among Hospitals and Anesthesia Providers

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
First Job Search of Residents in the United States

Article • A & A Case Reports, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Efficacy Outcome Measures for Procedural Sedation Clinical Trials in Adults

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Associated Roles of Perioperative Medical Directors and Anesthesia

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesia Workload Nationally During Regular Workdays and Weekends

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The “Fourth Mission”

Article • A & A Case Reports, December 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Case Sequencing of Diagnostic Imaging Studies Performed Under General Anesthesia or Monitored Anesthesia Care During Nights and Weekends

Article • A & A Case Reports, November 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Large Heterogeneity in Mean Durations of Labor Analgesia Among Hospitals Reporting to the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Anesthesia Quality Institute

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Observational study of prolonged times to tracheal extubation

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
E-mail as the Appropriate Method of Communication for the Decision-Maker When Soliciting Advice for an Intellective Decision Task

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Lyn M Van Swol, Dr Franklin Dexter
Influencing Anesthesia Provider Behavior Using Anesthesia Information Management System Data for Near Real-Time Alerts and Post Hoc Reports

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
No Significant Association between Anesthesia Group Concentration and Private Insurer Payments in the United States

Article • Anesthesiology, September 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quality of Supervision as an Independent Contributor to an Anesthesiologist’s Individual Clinical Value

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Survey of the National Drug Shortage Effect on Anesthesia and Patient Safety

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Implications of National Anesthesia Workload on the Staffing of a Call Center

Article • A & A Case Reports, August 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Analysis of PACU Fast-Tracking Bypass

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, August 2015, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Management Implications for the Perioperative Surgical Home Related to Inpatient Case Cancellations and Add-On Case Scheduling on the Day of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Assessing and Comparing Anesthesiologists’ Performance on Mandated Metrics Using a Bayesian Approach

Article • Anesthesiology, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Elective Endovascular Treatment of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical analysis methods for meta-analysis of times to emergence

Article • European Journal of Anaesthesiology, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of Historical Case Duration Data for Estimating the Duration of Future Cases

Article • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, July 2015, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Calculating the probability of random sampling for continuous variables in submitted or published randomised controlled trials

Article • Anaesthesia, May 2015, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Relative Risk of Prolonged Operative Times From Inconsistent Surgical Teams

Article • Extremophiles, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reliability and Validity of Assessing Subspecialty Level of Faculty Anesthesiologists’ Supervision of Anesthesiology Residents

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reliability and Validity of the Anesthesiologist Supervision Instrument When Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Provide Scores

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesia Residents’ Global (Departmental) Evaluation of Faculty Anesthesiologists’ Supervision Can Be Less Than Their Average Evaluations of Individual Anesthesiologists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesiologist Staffing Considerations Consequent to the Temporal Distribution of Hypoxemic Episodes in the Postanesthesia Care Unit

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Deadly Heat

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Ophthalmologic Surgery Is Unique in Operating Room Management

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bernoulli Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Control Charts for Monitoring of Anesthesiologists’ Performance in Supervising Anesthesia Residents and Nurse Anesthetists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of Provider Type (Nurse Anesthetist or Resident Physician), Staff Assignments, and Other Covariates on Daily Evaluations of Anesthesiologists’ Quality of Supervision

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
High-quality operating room management research

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, August 2014, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Scheduling for anesthesia at geographic locations remote from the operating room

Article • Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, August 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Relative Influence on Total Cancelled Operating Room Time from Patients Who Are Inpatients or Outpatients Preoperatively

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Strategies for Net Cost Reductions with the Expanded Role and Expertise of Anesthesiologists in the Perioperative Surgical Home

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cognitive Outcome of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Observed/expected ratio analysis for hospital surgical efficiency instead of data envelopment analysis

Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, January 2014, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesia Scholarship, Research, and Publication

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Applying Systematic Criteria for Type and Screen Based on Procedure’s Probability of Erythrocyte Transfusion

Article • Anesthesiology, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale for general anaesthesia

Article • European Journal of Anaesthesiology, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale in Portuguese

Article • Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, January 2014, GN1 Genesis Network

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of Utility of a Decision Support System to Mitigate Delays in Admission from the Operating Room to the Postanesthesia Care Unit

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Increased Mean Time from End of Surgery to Operating Room Exit in a Historical Cohort of Cases with Prolonged Time to Extubation

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Difficulties and Challenges Associated with Literature Searches in Operating Room Management, Complete with Recommendations

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Review of Experimental Studies in Social Psychology of Small Groups When an Optimal Choice Exists and Application to Operating Room Management Decision-Making

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Lyn M Van Swol, Dr Franklin Dexter
Rescheduling of Previously Cancelled Surgical Cases Does Not Increase Variability in Operating Room Workload When Cases Are Scheduled Based on Maximizing Efficiency of Use of Operating Room Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cohort study of cases with prolonged tracheal extubation times to examine the relationship with duration of workday

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Case Cancellation Rates Measured by Surgical Service Differ Whether Based on the Number of Cases or the Number of Minutes Cancelled

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test Used for Data That Are Not Normally Distributed

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Communication Latencies of Apple Push Notification Messages Relevant for Delivery of Time-Critical Information to Anesthesia Providers

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Explanation for the Near-Constant Mean Time Remaining in Surgical Cases Exceeding Their Estimated Duration, Necessary for Appropriate Display on Electronic White Boards

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Value of a Scheduled Duration Quantified in Terms of Equivalent Numbers of Historical Cases

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Research, Education, and Nonclinical Service Productivity of New Junior Anesthesia Faculty During a 2-Year Faculty Development Program

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Behavioral Study of Daily Mean Turnover Times and First Case of the Day Start Tardiness

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Anesthesiology Residents’ and Nurse Anesthetists’ Perceptions of Effective Clinical Faculty Supervision by Anesthesiologists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Determinants, Associations, and Psychometric Properties of Resident Assessments of Anesthesiologist Operating Room Supervision

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Monitoring Anesthesiologists’ and Anesthesiology Departments’ Managerial Performance

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimating Surgical Case Durations and Making Comparisons Among Facilities

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Choosing Which Practitioner Sees the Next Patient in the Preanesthesia Evaluation Clinic Based on the Relative Speeds of the Practitioner

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Communication Latencies of Wireless Devices Suitable for Time-Critical Messaging to Anesthesia Providers

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Role of Communication Systems in Coordinating Supervising Anesthesiologists’ Activities Outside of Operating Rooms

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Case Scenario Consistent with Lack of Knowledge and Psychological Bias

Article • Anesthesiology, April 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Interpretation of the Association Between Frequency of Self-Reported Medical Errors and Faculty Supervision of Anesthesiology Residents

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparing the Cumulative Pain Patients Experience Waiting for Knee Arthroplasty to their Postoperative Pain

Article • Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research, January 2013, OMICS Publishing Group

Dr Franklin Dexter, Dr. Eric S Schwenk
Estimate of the Relative Risk of Succinylcholine for Triggering Malignant Hyperthermia

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Behavioral Interpretation of Absence of Hawthorne Effect for Turnover Times

Article • Journal of the American College of Surgeons, December 2012, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Descriptive Study of Case Scheduling and Cancellations Within 1 Week of the Day of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Implications of Resolved Hypoxemia on the Utility of Desaturation Alerts Sent from an Anesthesia Decision Support System to Supervising Anesthesiologists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Previous studies of statistical assessment of analgesic consumption

Article • European Journal of Anaesthesiology, October 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mediated Interruptions of Anaesthesia Providers using Predictions of Workload from Anaesthesia Information Management System Data

Article • Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, September 2012, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Measure to Quantify the Influence of Time from End of Surgery to Tracheal Extubation on Operating Room Workflow

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of Value of Scheduling Processes to Move Cases from a Heavily Used Main Campus to Other Facilities Within a Health Care System

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
In Reply

Article • Anesthesiology, August 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Brief History of Evidence-Based Operating Room Management

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparison of alphabetical versus categorical display format for medication order entry in a simulated touch screen anesthesia information management system: an experiment in clinician-computer interaction in anesthesia

Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Publication Bias, Retrospective Bias, and Reproducibility of Significant Results in Observational Studies

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Duration of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Outcome

Article • Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, April 2012, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Systematic Criteria for Type and Screen Based on Procedureʼs Probability of Erythrocyte Transfusion

Article • Anesthesiology, April 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Monitoring changes in individual surgeon’s workloads using anesthesia data

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Intrathecal Catheterization Influences Tolerance to Chronic Morphine in Rats

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Catherine M Cahill, Dr Franklin Dexter
Forecasting Preanesthesia Clinic Appointment Duration from the Electronic Medical Record Medication List

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of Supervision Ratios by Anesthesiologists on First-case Starts and Critical Portions of Anesthetics

Article • Anesthesiology, March 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hours of cases to schedule to rarely have overrun

Article • European Journal of Anaesthesiology, February 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Timing of Staffing Decisions in Hospital Operating Rooms: Incorporating Workload Heterogeneity into the Newsvendor Problem

Article • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, January 2012, INFORMS

Dr Franklin Dexter
Iowa satisfaction with anesthesia scale

Article • Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, January 2012, The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KAMJE)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Rationale for Anesthesia Groups to Run Additional Flexible Operating Rooms for Multiple Surgeons Who Have Scheduled More than 8 Hours of Cases

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Importance of Appropriately Modeling Procedure and Duration in Logistic Regression Studies of Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Korean translation and use of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2011, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of Variance of Communication Latencies in Anesthesia

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Forecasting the economic benefit of reducing non-operative time

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Patients' Perspective on Full Disclosure and Informed Consent Regarding Postoperative Visual Loss Associated With Spinal Surgery in the Prone Position

Article • Mayo Clinic Proceedings, September 2011, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mean Arterial Pressures Bracketing Prolonged Monitoring Interruptions Have Negligible Systematic Differences from Matched Controls Without Such Gaps

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Checklist for Statistical Topics in Anesthesia & Analgesia Reviews

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
In Response

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Multicenter Assessment of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale, an Instrument that Measures Patient Satisfaction with Monitored Anesthesia Care

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Needs Assessment for Business Strategies of Anesthesiology Groupsʼ Practices

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
National Incidence of Use of Monitored Anesthesia Care

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Meta-analysis of desflurane and propofol average times and variability in times to extubation and following commands

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Psychological biases and their impact on operating room efficiency

Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, May 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Observational Study of Anaesthetists’ Fresh Gas Flow Rates during Anaesthesia with Desflurane, Isoflurane and Sevoflurane

Article • Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, May 2011, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of Interventions Influencing or Reducing Patient Waiting While Stratifying by Surgical Procedure

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Surgeonsʼ and Anesthesiologistsʼ Perceptions of Turnover Times

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Event-based knowledge elicitation of operating room management decision-making using scenarios adapted from information systems data

Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Survey Study of Anesthesiologistsʼ and Surgeonsʼ Ordering of Unnecessary Preoperative Laboratory Tests

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Melody S. Goodman, Dr Franklin Dexter
Balancing cost-cutting and safety in the OR

Article • OR Nurse, January 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Curriculum Providing Cognitive Knowledge and Problem-Solving Skills for Anesthesia Systems-Based Practice

Article • Journal of Graduate Medical Education, December 2010, Journal of Graduate Medical Education

Dr Franklin Dexter
Application of an Online Reference for Reviewing Basic Statistical Principles of Operating Room Management

Article • Journal of Statistics Education, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

Dr Franklin Dexter
Can an Acute Pain Service Be Cost-Effective?

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Impact of Anesthesiologists on the Incidence of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean in the United States: Role of Anesthesia Availability, Productivity, Guidelines, and Patient Safety

Article • Seminars in Perinatology, October 2010, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Fasting guidelines need to consider that cases may start earlier than scheduled

Article • Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, September 2010, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Limited Value of Sequencing Cases Based on Their Probability of Cancellation

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of Operating Room Allocations to Optimize Scheduling of Specialty Rotations for Anesthesia Trainees

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Control Chart Monitoring of the Numbers of Cases Waiting When Anesthesiologists Do Not Bring in Members of Call Team

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Review of Behavioral Operations Experimental Studies of Newsvendor Problems for Operating Room Management

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Letter to Editor: Previous research in operating room scheduling and staffing

Article • Health Care Management Science, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Meta-Analysis of Average and Variability of Time to Extubation Comparing Isoflurane with Desflurane or Isoflurane with Sevoflurane

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of Procedure Classification on Process Variability and Parameter Uncertainty of Surgical Case Durations

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Optimizing the Arrival, Waiting, and NPO Times of Children on the Day of Pediatric Endoscopy Procedures

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Modeling of Average and Variability of Time to Extubation for Meta-Analysis Comparing Desflurane to Sevoflurane

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of State Discharge Abstract Data to Identify Hospitals Performing Similar Types of Operative Procedures

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prospective Trial of Thoracic and Spine Surgeons’ Updating of Their Estimated Case Durations at the Start of Cases

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Numerous studies have considered opportunity costs of operating time

Article • Surgery, January 2010, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Should Anesthesia Groups Advocate Funding of Clinics and Scheduling Systems to Increase Operating Room Workload?

Article • Anesthesiology, November 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Forecasting and Perception of Average and Latest Hours Worked by On-Call Anesthesiologists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Numbers of Simultaneous Turnovers Calculated from Anesthesia or Operating Room Information Management System Data

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reducing Tardiness from Scheduled Start Times by Making Adjustments to the Operating Room Schedule

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lack of Sensitivity of Staffing for 8-Hour Sessions to Standard Deviation in Daily Actual Hours of Operating Room Time Used for Surgeons with Long Queues

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of the Operating Room Schedule on Tardiness from Scheduled Start Times

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Incentive Payments to Academic Anesthesiologists for Late Afternoon Work Did Not Influence Turnover Times

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Growth Rates in Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging and Sedation

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reducing surgical patient fasting times

Article • AORN Journal, May 2009, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Lessons from Evidence-Based Operating Room Management in Balancing the Needs for Efficient, Effective and Ethical Healthcare

Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

Dr Franklin Dexter
Typical Savings from Each Minute Reduction in Tardy First Case of the Day Starts

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Both Bias and Lack of Knowledge Influence Organizational Focus on First Case of the Day Starts

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Implications of Event Entry Latency on Anesthesia Information Management Decision Support Systems

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Automatic Updating of Times Remaining in Surgical Cases Using Bayesian Analysis of Historical Case Duration Data and “Instant Messaging” Updates from Anesthesia Providers

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operational research applied to health services 2007 special issue

Article • Health Care Management Science, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Case Scheduling Preferences of One Surgeonʼs Cataract Surgery Patients

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Nursing Directors’ Influence on Anesthesia Group Operating Room Productivity

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operative Time and Other Outcomes of the Electrothermal Bipolar Vessel Sealing System (LigaSure™) Versus Other Methods for Surgical Hemostasis: A Meta-Analysis

Article • Surgical Innovation, September 2008, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Automated Correction of Room Location Errors in Anesthesia Information Management Systems

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Systematic Review of General Thoracic Surgery Articles to Identify Predictors of Operating Room Case Durations

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Long-Term Forecasting of Anesthesia Workload in Operating Rooms from Changes in a Hospital’s Local Population Can Be Inaccurate

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quotation from Article about Anesthesia Providers’ Activities during Ophthalmology Cases

Article • Anesthesiology, April 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty

Article • Health Care Management Science, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Use of Distributed Displays of Operating Room Video When Real-Time Occupancy Status Was Available

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Predicting Orthopedic Surgeons’ Preferences for Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Their Patients

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Calculating Institutional Support That Benefits Both the Anesthesia Group and Hospital

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Tactical Increases in Operating Room Block Time for Capacity Planning Should Not Be Based on Utilization

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Coordination of Appointments for Anesthesia Care Outside of Operating Rooms Using an Enterprise-Wide Scheduling System

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Craniocervical Motion during Direct Laryngoscopy and Orotracheal Intubation with the Macintosh and Miller Blades

Article • Anesthesiology, December 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Allocative efficiency vs technical efficiency in operating room management

Article • Anaesthesia, November 2007, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Patient Waiting Time Matters When Filling a Pod of Operating Rooms

Article • Archives of Surgery, November 2007, American Medical Association (AMA)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Why Calculating PACU Staffing Is So Hard and Why/How Operations Research Specialists Can Help

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, October 2007, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Detecting Diversion of Anesthetic Drugs by Providers

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Green Mountain Boys Would Be Disappointed

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reliability of a Telephone-Based Glasgow Outcome Scale Assessment Using a Structured Interview in a Heterogenous Population of Patients and Examiners

Article • Journal of Neurotrauma, September 2007, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Psychological Basis for Anesthesiologists??? Operating Room Managerial Decision-Making on the Day of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Managerial Decision-Making on the Day of Surgery With and Without Computer Recommendations and Status Displays

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Measuring the Frequency of Delays in Admission into the PACU

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, August 2007, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
An Observational Study of Surgeons?? Sequencing of Cases and Its Impact on Postanesthesia Care Unit and Holding Area Staffing Requirements at Hospitals

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Simple Method for Deciding When Patients Should Be Ready on the Day of Surgery Without Procedure-Specific Data

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Efficiency in the National Health Service

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bed Management Displays to Optimize Patient Flow From the OR to the PACU

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, June 2007, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Application of a Similarity Index to State Discharge Abstract Data to Identify Opportunities for Growth of Surgical and Anesthesia Practices

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Identification of systematic underestimation (bias) of case durations during case scheduling would not markedly reduce overutilized operating room time

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2007, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reductions in non-operative times, not increases in operating room efficiency

Article • Surgery, April 2007, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Tactical Increases in Operating Room Block Time Based on Financial Data and Market Growth Estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Impact on Operating Room Efficiency of Reducing Turnover Times and Anesthesia-Controlled Times

Article • Annals of Surgery, February 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prior Work Using Meta-Analyses of Operative Times Between Regional and General Anesthesia

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mean operating room times differ by 50% among hospitals in different countries for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and lung lobectomy

Article • Journal of Anesthesia, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
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

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Holiday and Weekend Operating Room On-Call Staffing Requirements

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Observational study of operating room times for knee and hip replacement surgery at nine U.S. community hospitals

Article • Health Care Management Science, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prior Research in Measuring Financial Differences Among Surgical Specialties and Using Such Differences in Decision Making

Article • Annals of Surgery, November 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mean operating room times differ by 50% among hospitals in different countries for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and lung lobectomy

Article • Journal of Anesthesia, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Economic, Educational, and Policy Perspectives on the Preincision Operating Room Period

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Impact of Average Patient Acuity on Staffing of the Phase I PACU

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, October 2006, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Should Evaluation of Surgeons Based on Total Hospital Costs Have Considered Operating Room Times?

Article • Journal of the American College of Surgeons, September 2006, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Staffing and case scheduling for anesthesia in geographically dispersed locations outside of operating rooms

Article • Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, August 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Elephant in the Operating Room

Article • Anesthesiology, June 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Predicting Anesthesia Times for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiological Procedures

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Markov computer simulation model of the economics of neuromuscular blockade in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome

Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Impact of surgical sequencing on post anesthesia care unit staffing

Article • Health Care Management Science, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF PERIOPERATIVE PROCESSES: A MODELING AND VISUALIZATION PARADIGM

Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2006, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
MONITORING WAITING TIMES (MEAN TARDINESS) ON THE DAY OF ELECTIVE SURGERY

Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2006, Elsevier

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

Article • Anesthesiology, December 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Methods for Understanding Super-Efficient Data Envelopment Analysis Results with an Application to Hospital Inpatient Surgery

Article • Health Care Management Science, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Validity and usefulness of a method to monitor surgical services’ average bias in scheduled case durations

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
An Algorithm for Processing Vital Sign Monitoring Data to Remotely Identify Operating Room Occupancy in Real-Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Validation of Statistical Methods to Compare Cancellation Rates on the Day of Surgery

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Deciding Whether Your Hospital Can Apply Clinical Trial Results of Strategies to Increase Productivity by Reducing Anesthesia and Turnover Times

Article • Anesthesiology, August 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Financial Implications of a Hospital’s Specialization in Rare Physiologically Complex Surgical Procedures

Article • Anesthesiology, July 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimating the Incidence of Prolonged Turnover Times and Delays by Time of Day

Article • Anesthesiology, June 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Tactical Decision Making for Selective Expansion of Operating Room Resources Incorporating Financial Criteria and Uncertainty in Subspecialties?? Future Workloads

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantifying Effect of a Hospital’s Caseload for a Surgical Specialty on That of Another Hospital Using Multi-Attribute Market Segments

Article • Health Care Management Science, May 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating room efficiency and scheduling

Article • Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, April 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Strategies to reduce delays in admission into a postanesthesia care unit from operating rooms

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, April 2005, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Zuweisung und Planung von Operationsraumkapazit�ten

Article • Der Chirurg, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Criteria for identification of comprehensive pediatric hospitals and referral regions

Article • The Journal of Pediatrics, January 2005, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Meta-analysis of trials comparing postoperative recovery after anesthesia with sevoflurane or desflurane

Article • American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, January 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Dr Franklin Dexter
Making Management Decisions on the Day of Surgery Based on Operating Room Efficiency and Patient Waiting Times

Article • Anesthesiology, December 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Data Envelopment Analysis to Determine by How Much Hospitals Can Increase Elective Inpatient Surgical Workload for Each Specialty

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Market Capture of Inpatient Perioperative Services Using DEA

Article • Health Care Management Science, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Necessity of Guidelines for Any Workday or Four Weeks Systems for Allocating OR Times

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Using length of stay data from a hospital to evaluate whether limiting elective surgery at the hospital is an inappropriate decision

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2004, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Review of operational decision making before the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency

Article • Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, August 2004, Lavoisier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Differentiating among Hospitals Performing Physiologically Complex Operative Procedures in the Elderly

Article • Anesthesiology, June 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Financial Disclosure

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Impact of Reducing Turnover Times on Staffing Costs

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
When to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Operating Room Efficiency

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantifying Net Staffing Costs Due to Longer-than-average Surgical Case Durations

Article • Anesthesiology, February 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating room utilization: information management systems

Article • Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, December 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of Operating Room Information System Data to Predict the Impact of Reducing Turnover Times on Staffing Costs

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of Discharge Abstract Databases to Differentiate among Pediatric Hospitals Based on Operative Procedures

Article • Anesthesiology, August 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Managing Risk and Expected Financial Return from Selective Expansion of Operating Room Capacity: Mean-Variance Analysis of a Hospital???s Portfolio of Surgeons

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Scheduling of cases in an ambulatory center

Article • Anesthesiology Clinics of North America, June 2003, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Utilization Alone Is Not an Accurate Metric for the Allocation of Operating Room Block Time to Individual Surgeons with Low Caseloads

Article • Anesthesiology, May 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Physicians’ perceptions of minimum time that should be saved to move a surgical case from one operating room to another: internet−based survey of the membership of the association of anesthesia clinical directors (aacd)

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, May 2003, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Labor Costs Incurred by Anesthesiology Groups Because of Operating Rooms Not Being Allocated and Cases Not Being Scheduled to Maximize Operating Room Efficiency

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Optimizing Second Shift OR Staffing

Article • AORN Journal, April 2003, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
How to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Efficiency: Predicting Which Surgical Service Will Have the Most Underutilized Operating Room Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, February 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Uncertainty in Knowing the Operating Rooms in Which Cases Were Performed Has Little Effect on Operating Room Allocations or Efficiency

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Iliohypogastric-ilioinguinal peripheral nerve block for post-Cesarean delivery analgesia decreases morphine use but not opioid-related side effects

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, August 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sampling Error Can Significantly Affect Measured Hospital Financial Performance of Surgeons and Resulting Operating Room Time Allocations

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Development of an Appropriate List of Surgical Procedures of a Specified Maximum Anesthetic Complexity to Be Performed at a New Ambulatory Surgery Facility

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Changing Allocations of Operating Room Time From a System Based on Historical Utilization to One Where the Aim is to Schedule as Many Surgical Cases as Possible

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
What Sample Sizes are Required for Pooling Surgical Case Durations among Facilities to Decrease the Incidence of Procedures with Little Historical Data?

Article • Anesthesiology, May 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
How to Schedule Elective Surgical Cases into Specific Operating Rooms to Maximize the Efficiency of Use of Operating Room Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify PACU staffing to minimize delays in admission from ORs

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, April 2002, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Power Analysis to Estimate How Many Months of Data Are Required to Identify Operating Room Staffing Solutions to Reduce Labor Costs and Increase Productivity

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Use of Linear Programming to Estimate Impact of Changes in a Hospitalʼs Operating Room Time Allocation on Perioperative Variable Costs

Article • Anesthesiology, March 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Calculating a Potential Increase in Hospital Margin for Elective Surgery by Changing Operating Room Time Allocations or Increasing Nursing Staffing to Permit Completion of More Cases: A Case Study

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
What are the Most Important Risk Factors for a Patient’s Developing Intraoperative Hypothermia?

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cost Implications of Various Operating Room Scheduling Strategies

Article • ASA Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Calculating a Potential Increase in Hospital Margin for Elective Surgery by Changing Operating Room Time Allocations or Increasing Nursing Staffing to Permit Completion of More Cases: A Case Study

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Operating Room Managers’ Use of Integer Programming for Assigning Block Time to Surgical Groups: A Case Study

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
What are the Most Important Risk Factors for a Patient???s Developing Intraoperative Hypothermia?

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Brain Expression of Inducible Cyclooxygenase 2 Messenger RNA in Rats Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Article • Anesthesiology, December 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reducing family members’ anxiety while waiting on the day of surgery: systematic review of studies and implications of HIPAA health information privacy rules

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 2001, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Weekend Operating Room On Call Staffing Requirements

Article • AORN Journal, November 2001, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hospital Profitability per Hour of Operating Room Time Can Vary Among Surgeons

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
PEE10: IS NON-CONTACT NORMOTHERMIC WOUND THERAPY COST-EFFECTIVE FOR THE TREATMENT OF STAGE 3 AND 4 PRESSURE ULCERS?

Article • Value in Health, September 2001, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Statistical Analysis of Weekday Operating Room Anesthesia Group Staffing Costs at Nine Independently Managed Surgical Suites

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Analysis by Monte-Carlo Simulation of the Impact of Administrative and Medical Delays in Discharge from the Postanesthesia Care Unit on Total Patient Care Hours

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Impact on Revenue of Increasing Patient Volume at Surgical Suites with Relatively High Operating Room Utilization

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Scheduling A Delay Between Different Surgeons’ Cases in the Same Operating Room on the Same Day Using Upper Prediction Bounds for Case Durations

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Analysis of Postanesthesia Care Unit Staffing at a Surgical Suite with Frequent Delays in Admission from the Operating Room—A Case Study

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cost Identification Analysis for Succinylcholine

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Optimal number of beds and occupancy to minimize staffing costs in an obstetrical unit?

Article • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie, March 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cost Identification Analysis for Succinylcholine

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Lack of Systematic Month-to-Month Variation Over One-Year Periods in Ambulatory Surgery Caseload —Application to Anesthesia Staffing

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Strategy to Decide Whether to Move the Last Case of the Day in an Operating Room to Another Empty Operating Room to Decrease Overtime Labor Costs

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Method for Predicting When Patients Should Be Ready on the Day of Surgery

Article • Anesthesiology, October 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Enterprise-Wide Patient Scheduling Information Systems to Coordinate Surgical Clinic and Operating Room Scheduling Can Impair Operating Room Efficiency

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Room I, 10/17/2000 2: 00 PM - 4: 00 PM (PS) Strategy to Decide Whether to Move the Last Case of the Day in an Operating Room to Another Empty Operating Room to Decrease Overtime Costs

Article • Anesthesiology, September 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Enterprise-Wide Patient Scheduling Information Systems to Coordinate Surgical Clinic and Operating Room Scheduling Can Impair Operating Room Efficiency

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Economic Analysis of Linking Operating Room Scheduling and Hospital Material Management Information Systems for Just-in-Time Inventory Control

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
OR Scheduling Algorithms

Article • Anesthesiology, July 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
What Is the Relative Frequency of Uncommon Ambulatory Surgery Procedures Performed in the United States with an Anesthesia Provider?

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sequencing Cases in the Operating Room: Predicting Whether One Surgical Case will Last Longer than Another

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effect of Compensation and Patient Scheduling on OR Labor Costs

Article • AORN Journal, April 2000, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Scheduling Surgical Cases into Overflow Block Time— Computer Simulation of the Effects of Scheduling Strategies on Operating Room Labor Costs

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sequencing Cases in the Operating Room: Predicting Whether One Surgical Case will Last Longer than Another

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Acute cord occlusion increases blood ionized magnesium concentration in preterm fetal sheep during maternal magnesium sulfate exposure

Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, March 2000, Canadian Science Publishing

Dr Franklin Dexter
Acute cord occlusion increases blood ionized magnesium concentration in preterm fetal sheep during maternal magnesium sulfate exposure

Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2000, Canadian Science Publishing

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimating the Duration of a Case When the Surgeon Has Not Recently Scheduled the Procedure at the Surgical Suite

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Forecasting Surgical Groups’ Total Hours of Elective Cases for Allocation of Block Time

Article • Anesthesiology, November 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Relying solely on historical surgical times to estimate accurately future surgical times is unlikely to reduce the average length of time cases finish late

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 1999, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Which Algorithm for Scheduling Add-on Elective Cases Maximizes Operating Room Utilization?

Article • Anesthesiology, November 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
An Unusual Presentation of Metallic Taste after Lidocaine Injections

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Strategy for Deciding Operating Room Assignments for Second-Shift Anesthetists

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Design of Appointment Systems for Preanesthesia Evaluation Clinics to Minimize Patient Waiting Times: A Review of Computer Simulation and Patient Survey Studies

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
What can the postanesthesiacare unit manager do to decrease costs in the postanesthesia care unit?

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, October 1999, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prediction Bounds for Case Scheduling

Article • Anesthesiology, August 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Prediction Bounds for Case Scheduling

Article • Anesthesiology, August 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
An Operating Room Scheduling Strategy to Maximize the Use of Operating Room Block Time

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Method to Evaluate Management Strategies to Decrease Variability in Operating Room Utilization

Article • Anesthesiology, July 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Brain Injury after Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit as Determined by Triphenyltetrazolium Staining

Article • Anesthesiology, May 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Computer Simulation to Determine How Rapid Anesthetic Recovery Protocols to Decrease the Time for Emergence or Increase the Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit Bypass Rate Affect Staffing of an Ambulatory Surgery Center

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Analysis of Total Labor Pain Using the Visual Analog Scale and Application to Studies of Analgesic Effectiveness During Childbirth

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effects of Isoflurane, Ketamine, and Fentanyl/N2 O on Concentrations of Brain and Plasma Catecholamines During Near-Complete Cerebral Ischemia in the Rat

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, April 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Bolus Maternal Cocaine Administration Does Not Produce a Large Increase in Fetal Sheep Cerebral Cortical Glutamate Concentration

Article • Neurotoxicology and Teratology, March 1999, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Sympathetic Ganglionic Blockade Masks Beneficial Effect of Isoflurane on Histologic Outcome from Near-complete Forebrain Ischemia in the Rat

Article • Anesthesiology, March 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Article • Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Decrease in Case Duration Required to Complete an Additional Case During Regularly Scheduled Hours in an Operating Room Suite

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, January 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Article • Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Computer simulation of changes in nursing productivity from early tracheal extubation of coronary artery bypass graft patients

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, November 1998, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Method to Assist in the Scheduling of Add-on Surgical Cases-Upper Prediction Bounds for Surgical Case Durations Based on the Log-normal Distribution

Article • Anesthesiology, November 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hospital profitability for a surgeon’s common procedures predicts the surgeon’s overall profitability for the hospital

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 1998, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Is Lack of Statistical Power Always Evidence of Lack of Effect?

Article • Anesthesiology, September 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Analysis of Total Labor Pain Using the Visual Analog Scale and Application to Studies of Analgesic Effectiveness During Childbirth

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Regional anesthesia does not significantly change surgical time versus general anesthesia?A meta-analysis of randomized studies*1

Article • Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, September 1998, BMJ

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical Analysis of Total Labor Pain Using the Visual Analog Scale and Application to Studies of Analgesic Effectiveness During Childbirth

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Differential Effects of Anesthetic Agents on Outcome from Near-complete but Not Incomplete Global Ischemia in the Rat

Article • Anesthesiology, August 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Relative Neuroprotective Effects of Dizocilpine and Isoflurane During Focal Cerebral Ischemia in the Rat

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, July 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cerebrovascular Relaxation Responses to Endothelium-dependent and -independent Vasodilators after Normothermic and Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in the Rabbit

Article • Anesthesiology, June 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Method to Compare Costs of Drugs and Supplies among Anesthesia Providers

Article • Anesthesiology, May 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Interactions between Hypothermia and the Latency to Ischemic Depolarization

Article • Anesthesiology, May 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Effect of a Perioperative Clinical Pathway for Knee Replacement Surgery on Hospital Costs

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, May 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Recovery of Evoked Potential Amplitude after Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit

Article • Anesthesiology, March 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Chronic hypoxemia causes extracellular glutamate concentration to increase in the cerebral cortex of the near-term fetal sheep

Article • Developmental Brain Research, February 1998, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Article • Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Application of Practice Guidelines to Anesthesiology

Article • Anesthesiology, November 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparison of the Effects of Propofol and Pentobarbital on Neurologic Outcome and Cerebral Infarct Size after Temporary Focal Ischemia in the Rat

Article • Anesthesiology, November 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Development of a Measure of Patient Satisfaction with Monitored Anesthesia Care

Article • Anesthesiology, October 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
High-Dose Fentanyl Does Not Adversely Affect Outcome from Forebrain Ischemia in the Rat

Article • Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, October 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Doxycycline Reduces Early Neurologic Impairment after Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit

Article • Anesthesiology, September 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Effect of haemoglobin concentration on brain oxygenation in focal stroke: a mathematical modelling study

Article • British Journal of Anaesthesia, September 1997, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Ethanol-Induced Changes in Prostaglandin E Concentration in the Intact Cerebral Cortex of Preterm and Near-term Fetal Sheep

Article • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, September 1997, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Does Early Extubation ("Fast-tracking") of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients Truly Decrease Perioperative Costs?

Article • Anesthesiology, July 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Research Synthesis of Controlled Studies Evaluating the Effect of Hypocapnia and Airway Protection on Cerebral Outcome

Article • Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, July 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Recommendations for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Cerebral Air Embolism Based on a Mathematical Model of Bubble Absorption

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Brain Uses Mostly Dissolved Oxygen During Profoundly Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Article • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, June 1997, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Mathematical Modeling of Acetylcholine Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics in Sinus Node Neuroeffector Junctions

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, June 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
A Statistical Method for Predicting Postanesthesia Care Unit Staffing Needs

Article • AORN Journal, May 1997, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Quantification of phase I postanesthesia nursing activities in the phase II postanesthesia care unit

Article • Nursing Outlook, March 1997, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Measuring productivity of the phase I postanesthesia care unit

Article • Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, February 1997, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Article • The Journal of Clinical Monitoring, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Applications of Information Systems to Operating Room Scheduling

Article • Anesthesiology, December 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Flumazenil does not affect the increase in rat hippocampal extracellular glutamate concentration produced during thioacetamide-induced hepatic encephalopathy

Article • Metabolic Brain Disease, December 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Effects of Plasma and Brain Magnesium Concentrations on Lidocaine-Induced Seizures in the Rat

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimate of the maximum absorption rate of microscopic arterial air emboli after entry into the arterial circulation during cardiac surgery

Article • Perfusion, November 1996, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Surgical ICU Underutilization Does not Significantly Discourage Discharge

Article • Health Services Management Research, November 1996, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials Correlate With Neurological Outcome in Rabbits Undergoing Cerebral Air Embolism

Article • Stroke, October 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reply

Article • Anesthesiology, October 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Magnesium Sulfate Adversely Affects Fetal Lamb Survival and Blocks Fetal Cerebral Blood Flow Response During Maternal Hemorrhage

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Application of cost-utility and quality-adjusted life years analyses to monitored anesthesia care for sedation only

Article • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, June 1996, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Biomechanical evaluation of Caspar and Cervical Spine Locking Plate systems in a cadaveric model

Article • Journal of Neurosurgery, June 1996, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)

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

Article • Anesthesiology, June 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Rapid Rewarming Causes an Increase in the Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen that Is Temporarily Unmatched by Cerebral Blood Flow

Article • Anesthesiology, June 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Ethanol increases uterine blood flow and fetal arterial blood oxygen tension in the near-term pregnant ewe

Article • Alcohol, May 1996, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cerebral Oxygenation during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Article • Anesthesiology, April 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Application of Prediction Levels to OR Scheduling

Article • AORN Journal, March 1996, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
Heparin Reduces Neurological Impairment After Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism in the Rabbit

Article • Stroke, February 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Theoretical Assessment of Normobaric Oxygen Therapy to Treat Pneumocephalus

Article • Anesthesiology, February 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Decreases in Anesthesia-Controlled Time Cannot Permit One Additional Surgical Operation to Be Reliably Scheduled During the Workday

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Diaspirin Cross-linked Hemoglobin Does Not Increase Brain Oxygen Consumption during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Rabbits

Article • Anesthesiology, December 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Dose-Dependent Effects of Acute In Vivo Ethanol Exposure on Extracellular Glutamate Concentration in the Cerebral Cortex of the Near-Term Fetal Sheep

Article • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, December 1995, Wiley

Dr Franklin Dexter
The Cost Efficacy of Hypothetically Eliminating Adverse Anesthetic Outcomes from High-Risk, but Neither Low- nor Moderate-Risk, Surgical Operations

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Theoretical Analysis of Cerebral Venous Blood Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation as an Index of Cerebral Oxygenation during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Article • Anesthesiology, August 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Comparisons between Desflurane and Isoflurane or Propofol on Time to Following Commands and Time to Discharge

Article • Anesthesiology, July 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Interactions between NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptor antagonists during halothane anesthesia in the rat

Article • Neuropharmacology, June 1995, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Reply

Article • Anesthesiology, June 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of Statistical Tests to Compare Visual Analog Scale Measurements among Groups

Article • Anesthesiology, April 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Glycine Receptor Antagonism

Article • Anesthesiology, April 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Temporal Thresholds for Hyperglycemia-Augmented Ischemic Brain Damage in Rats

Article • Stroke, April 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
pH-Stat Management Reduces the Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen during Profound Hypothermia (17 degrees Celsius)

Article • Anesthesiology, April 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Estimating Brain Temperature during Hypothermia

Article • Anesthesiology, February 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Glutamate Release from the Ovine Fetal Brain during Maternal Hemorrhage

Article • Anesthesiology, February 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Statistical analysis of drug interactions in anesthesia

Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, February 1995, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of Strategies to Decrease Postanesthesia Care Unit Costs

Article • Anesthesiology, January 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mathematical analysis of haemodilution's direct effect on rate of brain cooling during cardiopulmonary bypass

Article • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Pulsatile Versus Nonpulsatile Flow

Article • Anesthesiology, January 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Blood warms as it flows retrograde from a femoral cannulation site to the carotid artery during cardiopulmonary bypass

Article • Perfusion, November 1994, SAGE Publications

Dr Franklin Dexter
Minimum Alveolar Concentration for Halothane in the Rat Is Resistant to Effects of Forebrain Ischemia and Reperfusion

Article • Anesthesiology, November 1994, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Glutamatergic Antagonism

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 1994, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of Statistical Tests to Compare Doses of Analgesics among Groups

Article • Anesthesiology, September 1994, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Theoretical Analysis Predicts that Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Does Not Accurately Measure Efferent Vagal Activity During Anesthesia

Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, July 1994, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Pulsatile Versus Nonpulsatile Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Article • Anesthesiology, May 1994, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Computer simulation of brain cooling during cardiopulmonary bypass

Article • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 1994, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mathematical model of acetylcholine kinetics in neuroeffector junctions

Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, January 1994, American Physiological Society

Dr Franklin Dexter
Hypothermia Acid-Base Management Does Not Affect Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen at 27° C

Article • Anesthesiology, September 1993, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Analysis of vagally induced sinus arrhythmias

Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, December 1992, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Central Nervous System Toxicity of Local Anesthetic Mixtures in the Rat

Article • Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 1992, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Brain Blood Flow and Metabolism Do Not Decrease at Stable Brain Temperature during Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Rabbits

Article • Anesthesiology, August 1992, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Cerebral Blood Flow Response to Paco2 during Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Rabbits

Article • Anesthesiology, October 1991, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mathematical model of cellular basis for the respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, May 1991, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Simulation of the diffusion of acetylcholine in the neuroeffector junctions of the sinus node

Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, December 1989, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mathematical model of the changes in heart rate elicited by vagal stimulation.

Article • Circulation Research, November 1989, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Franklin Dexter
Muscarinic autoreceptors do not modulate kinetics of acetylcholine release in hearts

Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, April 1989, American Physiological Society

Dr Franklin Dexter
Mathematical model of dependence of heart rate on tissue concentration of acetylcholine

Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, February 1989, American Physiological Society

Dr Franklin Dexter
Modeling holocene changes in the location and abundance of beech populations in Eastern North America

Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, February 1987, Elsevier

Dr Franklin Dexter
A statistical measure of internal consistency

Article • Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, January 1986, Taylor & Francis

Dr Franklin Dexter
Modification of the standard most-probable-number procedure for fecal coliform bacteria in seawater and shellfish

Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 1981, ASM Journals

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of staffing and scheduling on operating room productivity

Article • Cambridge University Press

Dr Franklin Dexter
Evaluating the Efficiency of Hospitals’ Perioperative Services Using Dea

Article • Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Franklin Dexter
Influence of Operating Room Staffing and Scheduling on Operating Room Productivity

Article • Cambridge University Press

Dr Franklin Dexter

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