The following publications have used CalculatOR™ for the data analysis. Click on the article to view the abstract in The National Library of Medicine's PubMed service.

McIntosh C, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: tutorial using data from an Australian hospital. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103: 1499-1516, 2006

Dexter F, Epstein RH, de Matta R, Marcon E. Strategies to reduce delays in admission into a postanesthesia care unit from operating rooms. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing 20: 92-102, 2005

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Traub RD, Xiao Y. Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times. Anesthesiology 101:1444-1453, 2004

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Review of operational decision making before the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency. Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés 38: 603-630, 2004

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Optimizing second shift OR staffing. AORN Journal 77: 825-830, 2003

Abouleish AE, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Lubarsky DA, Whitten CW, Prough DS. Labor costs incurred by anesthesiology groups because of operating rooms not being allocated and cases not being scheduled to maximize operating room efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96: 1109-1113, 2003

Dexter F, Abouleish AE, Epstein RH, Whitten CW, Lubarsky DA. Use of operating room information system data to predict the impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs Anesthesia & Analgesia 97: 1119-1126, 2003

Epstein RH, Dexter F. 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. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94: 640-643, 2002

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Traub RD. Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify post anesthesia care unit staffing to minimize delays in admission from operating rooms. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing 17: 84-88, 2002

Dexter F, Epstein RH, HM Marsh. Costs and risks of weekend anesthesia staffing at six independently managed surgical suites. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 70: 377-381, 2002, 2002

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Traub RD. Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify post anesthesia care unit staffing to minimize delays in admission from operating rooms. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing 17(2):84-88, 2002

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Uncertainty in knowing the operating rooms in which cases were performed has little effect on operating room allocations or efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95: 1726-1730, 2002

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marsh HM. Statistical analysis of weekday operating room anethesia group staffing costs at nine independently managed surgical suites. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2001 92: 1493-1498, 2001

Dexter F. Epstein RH, Penning DH. Statistical analysis of postanesthesia care unit staffing at a surgical suite with frequent delays in admission from the operating room - a case study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92: 947-949, 2001