Do teams of strangers create health care dangers? The effect of OR team consistency on operative times in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

i) Statistically significant negative correlation between case consistency score and both anesthesia time and patient preparation time
ii) Inconsistent surgical team cohort had a higher mean patient preparation time (53.3 ± 14.0 min vs. 49.0 ± 9.3 min; p < 0.05) and mean case length (336.6 ± 47.4 min vs. 321.9 ± 42.4 min; p < 0.05).

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