Discussion on measures to reduce cost of hospital surgery from facility angle

With the advances in surgical techniques, high-tech medical equipment is being increased, facilities capacity is being bigger and the requirement of operation rooms is being higher, which makes the cost and energy consumption of operating rooms increase. To reduce surgical costs becomes imperative. Europe countries and America consider that appropriate measures should be adopted, such as improving the operating room utilization, accelerating the turnover rate of surgery and increasing surgical throughput in order to reduce the cost of surgery, and the other non-surgery-related factors, such as reforming health care system and promoting cost-effective health care model should be considered. Reducing surgical facility requirements, equipment performance, quality control of the surgery environment and other factors associated directly with the surgery should be avoided. Otherwise, that will result in increasing the risk of surgery and affecting the quality of operation.