The Road to High-Performing ORs

Leverage benchmarking to improve the performance of your operating room. The OR Benchmarks® Collaborative (ORBC) is a “vendor-neutral” benchmarking service provided by McKesson in partnership with OR Manager, Inc. Subscribers use our secure Web-based dashboard to review and compare their organization's performance against internal and national benchmarks and trends.

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ORBC Webinars

Learn more about the OR Benchmarks Collaborative by participating in one of our upcoming Webinars. To participate, you will need high-speed Internet access and a phone. View a pre-recorded Webinar now.




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Top Performers Named

McKesson and OR Manager Inc. are proud to announce the 2008 Top ORBC Performers. The nearly 40 organizations in the U.S. and Canada were ranked based on their performance in 12 key indicators. Read the details



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Performance Indicators

Your key performance indicators (listed below) will be benchmarked against other facilities nationwide, establishing national standards for OR performance. Currently more than 240 organizations from across the U.S. and Canada are submitting and trending data for monthly performance in these areas. Common surgical data elements are used in calculations. about the data requirements

  • Prime-Time Utilization
  • Start-Time Accuracy
    • First case of the day
    • Subsequent cases
  • Case Time Effectiveness
    • Patient in room to anesthesia ready
    • Anesthesia ready to patient incision
    • Patient incision to patient close
    • Patient close to patient out
    • Turnover time (patient out to patient in)
    • Total patient in to patient out time
  • Estimated Case-Duration Accuracy
  • Add-on Rate Day of Surgery
  • Total volume analysis
  • Quality Measures
    • Percent return to surgery within 24 hrs
    • Compliance with surgical pause/time out
    • Percent patients screened prior to surgery