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    AHA Webinars

    Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

    May 11th, 2017
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    Lean Six Sigma Reduces Admission Delays in a Critical Access Hospital Emergency Department by 40%

    Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Applying Lean Six Sigma Methodologies Reduces Lead Time for Emergency Department CT Scans by 32%

    The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Using Virtual Discrete Event Simulation and Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Door-to-Provider Time in a Tertiary Emergency Department

    The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Reducing Emergency Department ICU Critical Care Boarder Hours

    Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Lean/Six Sigma Methods Reduce Troponin Turnaround Time for Emergency Department Patients in a 500-Bed Tertiary Hospital Level I Trauma Center

    National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

    June 10th, 2015
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    Emergency Department: Optimizing Capacity with the Usage of Rapid Medical Evaluation

    Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

    March 25th, 2013
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