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The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...
Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...
St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...
Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...
The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...
