Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford Health Policy
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Forum on Contemporary Europe
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
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Alex Macario, MD, MBA
Professor of Anesthesia and, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy and CHP/PCOR AssociateDepartment of Anesthesia H3580
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA 94305-5640
Research Interests
measuring and improving costs, quality, and outcome of surgical and anesthesia services; assessment of new technologies for surgical care; incorporating patient preferences in anesthesia decision making
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Initial Clinical Evaluation of a Handheld Device for Detecting Retained Surgical Gauze Sponges Using Radiofrequency Identification Technology
Alex Macario, Dean Morris, Sharon Morris
Archives of Surgery vol. 141, 7 (2006)
Economics of one-stage versus two-stage bilateral total knee arthroplasties
Alex Macario, Schilling P, Rubio R, Bhalla A, Goodman S
Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research vol. 414 (2003)- What Questions do Patients Undergoing Lower Extremity Joint Replacement Surgery Have
Alex Macario, Schilling P, Rubio R, Bhalla A, Goodman S
BMC Health Services Research vol. 3, 1 (2003) 
Pharmacy Cost of Delivering Post-operative Analgesia to Patients Undergoing Joint Replacement Surgery, The
Alex Macario, McCoy M
The Journal of Pain vol. 4, 1 (2003)
How to Release Allocated Operating Room Time to Increase Efficiency
Dexter F, Traub R, Alex Macario
Anesthesia & Analgesia vol. 96, 2 (2003)- Operating Room Utilization Alone is Not an Accurate Metric for the Allocation of Operating Room Block Time to Individual Surgeons with Low Caseloads
Dexter F, Alex Macario, Traub R, Lubarsky D
Anesthesiology vol. 98, 5 (2003) - Is Non-Contact Thermal Wound Therapy Cost-Effective for the Treatment of Stage 3 and 4 Pressure Ulcers?
Alex Macario, F Dexter
Wounds vol. 14, 3 (2002) 
Development of an Appropriate List of Surgical Procedures of a Specified Maximum Anesthetic Complexity to be Performed at a New Ambulatory Surgery Facility
Frank Dexter, Alex Macario, Donald H. Penning, P Chung
Anesthesia & Analgesia vol. 95, 1 (2002)
Changing Allocations of Operating Room Time from a System Based on Historical Utilization to One Where the Aim is to Schedule as Many Surgical Cases as Possible
F Dexter, Alex Macario
Anesthesia & Analgesia vol. 94, 5 (2002)
What are the Most Important Risk Factors for a Patient's Developing Intraoperative Hypothermia?
Alex Macario, F Dexter
Anesthesia & Analgesia vol. 94, 1 (2002)
What is Quality Improvement in the Preoperative Period?
T Archer, C Schmiesing, Alex Macario
International Anesthesiology Clinics vol. 40, 2 (2002)
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