Hospital Trends: The Operating Room Audit

The industry’s largest, most comprehensive, and detailed audit of the Hospital Operating Room market

HRA’s Hospital Trends: The Operating Room Audit is an annual patient chart audit of pharmaceutical products used during surgical procedures, specific to the following product categories: anesthesia agents, neuromuscular blockers, sedatives, hypnotics, pain management agents/analgesics, and anti-emetics.  It is the largest audit of its kind, covering 4,000 operating room cases across each phase of anesthesia.  The audit is inclusive of both inpatient and outpatient surgery.  Data are projectable and weighted by hospital surgical volume.

Key Metrics

The Operating Room Audit tracks product usage by:

• Procedure/surgery type
• Primary medical condition, patient age, gender, weight, and other demographics
• Patient’s ASA status
• Type of anesthesia used (local, general, etc.)
• Phase of anesthesia:
  • Premedication
  • Induction
  • Maintenance
  • Emergence
  • Post-operative/recovery
• Primary or secondary use

Who should purchase?

Market researchers, brand managers, marketers, forecasters, and other decision makers with inline or pipeline agents in the following categories: anesthesia agents, neuromuscular blockers, sedatives, hypnotics, pain management agents/analgesics, and anti-emetics

Applications

• Monitor trends in your – and competitors’ – product use during surgical procedures
• Track product utilization over time
• Identify areas of opportunity for marketing, promotion, sales force strategies, in-licensing, and new product development
• Utilize HRA’s projectable data to provide input into product forecasts

• Patient chart audit
• Online data collection via self-administered survey form
• 4,000 cases collected from approximately 300 anesthesiologists and/or CRNAs across the United States
  • Sample stratified by hospital surgical volume (Each respondent reports between four and 18 cases)
  • Maximum number of cases assigned dependent upon hospital surgical volume – skewed toward higher volume hospitals
  • Sample balanced by region and size

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