Table 5.
Scope of Practice
| OR days per week | |
| <1/week | 17% |
| 1/week | 42% |
| 2/week | 39% |
| 3/week | 2% |
| % of OR time dedicated to rhinology | |
| <25% | 2% |
| 26%-50% | 25% |
| 51%-75% | 25% |
| 75%-99% | 31% |
| 100% | 17% |
| Current OR time | |
| Too much | 0% |
| Appropriate | 58% |
| Too little | 42% |
| % of cases performed endoscopically | |
| 1-20% | 9% |
| 21-40% | 6% |
| 41-60% | 11% |
| 61-80% | 11% |
| 81-100% | 63% |
| % of cases performed with IGS | |
| 0% | 11% |
| 1-20% | 20% |
| 21-40% | 17% |
| 4 1-60% | 11% |
| 61-80% | 9% |
| 81-100% | 26% |
| No IGS available | 6% |
| Number of in office procedures per year | |
| None | 42% |
| 1 to 20 | 20% |
| 20 to 40 | 16% |
| 40 to 60 | 8% |
| Greater than 60 | 14% |
| Number of new rhinology consults per year (SD) | |
| Inpatient/ER | 58 (22.3) |
| In office | 818 (152.3) |
| Number of operative procedures per year (SD) | |
| Primary Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (CRS) | 73 (24.1) |
| Revision Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (CRS) | 59 (18.1) |
| Endoscopic resection of benign sinonasal neoplasms | 14 (3.9) |
| Septoplasty | 125 (40.4) |
| Endoscopic pituitary adenoma resection | 14 (5.1) |
| Anterior Skull Base resection (benign) | 4 (1.5) |
| Anterior Skull base resection (malignant) | 3 (1.3) |
| Orbital Decompression (Grave’s) | 2 (1.0) |
CRS - Chronic Rhinosinusitis.
SD - Standard Deviation.
IGS - Image Guidance System.