Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management

Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management is an online journal that aims to serve as a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed source of information related to the administrative, economic, operational, safety, and quality aspects of surgical and procedural delivery in the ambulatory setting, perioperative services, and non-operating room environment.

Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management's audience includes all groups who participate in the planning, execution, and monitoring of the periprocedural process such as medical specialists (surgeons, anesthesiologists, hospitalists), nurses, administrators, pharmacists, systems and process engineers, and other health care providers.

As the official journal of the Society of Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI), the journal provides high-quality information and research findings on operational and system-based approaches to ensure safe, coordinated, and high-value periprocedural care.
With the current focus on value in health care it is essential that there is a venue for researchers to publish articles on:

• quality improvement process initiatives

• process flow modeling

• information management

• efficient design

• cost improvement

• use of novel technologies

• management