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Other landmark studies led by
Macario took perspectives of patients regarding their preferences for postoperative anesthesia outcomes, as well as those of expert anesthesiologists to show that as the safety of anesthesia care increased in the 1980s and 1990s, a shift occurred in the focus of everyday
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chips in terms of helping surgeons avoid leaving sponges in patients, while highlighting that the risk of sponges or instruments inadvertently left in the patient's body "increases in emergencies, with unplanned changes in procedure and with patients that have a higher body-mass index." Furthermore,
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Dexter, F., Macario, A., Traub, R. D., Hopwood, M., & Lubarsky, D. A. (1999). An operating room scheduling strategy to maximize the use of operating room block time: computer simulation of patient scheduling and survey of patients' preferences for surgical waiting time. Anesthesia &
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he examined the economics of the surgical area, showing that the high cost of surgical procedures is due to the intensity of labor and resources required in the operating room, and identified that efforts to reduce total costs of care need to address the large fraction of costs that are
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in 1986, and then an M.B.A. majoring in health care organizations and markets in 1988, and M.D. with distinction in research in 1990. He studied anesthesiology at
Stanford and was chief resident in 1994. He was a fellow in health services research until 1995.
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Macario, A., Vitez, T. S., Dunn, B., & McDonald, T. (1995). Where are the costs in perioperative care?: Analysis of hospital costs and charges for inpatient surgical care. The
Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, 83(6),
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Macario, A., Weinger, M., Truong, P., & Lee, M. (1999). Which clinical anesthesia outcomes are both common and important to avoid? The perspective of a panel of expert anesthesiologists. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 88(5),
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Macario began his academic career as clinical assistant professor in the
Department of Anesthesiology in 1995, and then assistant professor in 1996. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001, and to professor in 2006.
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Macario has published over 250 papers. He focuses his research on the economics of health care, with particular attention on the tradeoffs between costs and outcomes for patients having surgery and anesthesia.
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He published an often referenced set of metrics to measure how well an operating room suite is functioning, and described the relationship between hospital costs and patient charges as listed on the
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anesthesia practice from avoiding severe and less common complications such as stroke and death to also minimizing less severe and more common side-effects such as pain, nausea and vomiting.
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Macario, A., Weinger, M., Carney, S., & Kim, A. (1999). Which clinical anesthesia outcomes are important to avoid? The perspective of patients. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 89(3), 652.
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Macario, A. (2010). What does one minute of operating room time cost?. Journal of clinical anesthesia, 4(22), 233–236.
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2012 & 2013 – Faculty Mentor Award, American
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MacArio, Alex; Vitez, Terry S.; Dunn, Brian; McDonald, Tom (1995).
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Macario has investigated the challenges of predictive methods for
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