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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 ...
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...
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 emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...
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, ...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...
The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...
