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Implementation of Lean and Six Sigma principles in ophthalmology for improving quality of care and patient flow.

Survey of ophthalmology, 2019
Lean management is a set of principles aimed at improving processes by identifying and eliminating steps that do not add value to the consumer. Such steps lead to wasted time, resources, and expenses and result in customer and employee dissatisfaction ...
A. Sommer, E. Blumenthal
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The Discharge Lounge: A Patient Flow Process Solution.

Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 2020
BACKGROUND Patient flow, from emergency department admission through to discharge, influences hospital overcrowding. We aimed to improve patient flow by increasing discharge lounge (DL) usage.
Rebecca Woods, R. Sandoval, Gregory Vermillion, Brenda Bates-Jackson, Audrey Nwankwo, Catherine P. Canamar, L. Sarff   +6 more
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Perfecting Patient Flow in the Surgical Setting

AORN Journal, 2012
AbstractReduced surgical efficiency and productivity, delayed patient discharges, and prolonged use of hospital resources are the results of an OR that is unable to move patients to the postanesthesia care unit or other patient units. A primary reason for perioperative patient flow delay is the lack of hospital beds to accommodate surgical patients ...
Elaine J, Amato-Vealey, Patricia, Fountain, Deborah, Coppola   +2 more
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Improving patient flow in an obstetric unit

Health Care Management Science, 2011
Hospitals have become increasingly interested in maximizing patient throughput and bed utilization in all units to improve efficiency. To study tradeoffs in blocking and system efficiency, a simulation model using a path-based approach is developed for an obstetric unit.
Jacqueline, Griffin, Shuangjun, Xia, Siyang, Peng, Pinar, Keskinocak   +3 more
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Involuntary Patient Flow

Evaluation Review, 1980
A computer program was written which modeled the stages through which involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients passed following commitment. Using empirically derived base rates the program was run to determine the impact on a psychiatric ward of (a) different proportions of voluntary and involuntary admissions to the ward and (b) different rates of ...
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Modelling Patient Flow in a Radiotherapy Department

OR Insight, 2007
This paper reports the development of a simulation model of the radiotherapy department of Walsgrave Hospital and shows the results of experiments conducted using the model. In the radiotherapy department a key target is the number of days from the time that the consultant refers the patient to the department to the date that the patient receives their
S. Proctor, Brian Lehaney, C. Reeves, Zulfiqar Khan   +3 more
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Geriatric-patient flow-rate modelling

Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 1996
We consider the application of a three-compartment mathematical model using difference equations in discrete time to model the flow of patients through departments of geriatric medicine. It has been shown empirically that the time spent in hospital since admission may be described by a two-term mixed-exponential distribution.
Taylor, Gordon, McClean, Sally, Millard, Peter   +2 more
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Interventions to improve patient flow in emergency departments: an umbrella review

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2018
Objectives Patient flow and crowding are two major issues in ED service improvement. A substantial amount of literature exists on the interventions to improve patient flow and crowding, making it difficult for policymakers, managers and clinicians to be ...
L. De Freitas, S. Goodacre, R. O’Hara, P. Thokala, S. Hariharan   +4 more
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Patient Flow Within Hospitals: A Conceptual Model

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2019
Optimal patient flow minimizes waiting and is associated with quality healthcare. Emergency Department crowding is an indicator of poor patient flow and has been the focus of patient flow interventions.
Sherry Leviner
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Patient flow scorecards capture complexity in the patient flow process.

ED management : the monthly update on emergency department management, 2014
To get a larger, more holistic view of the patient flow process, a multidisciplinary improvement team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) developed a five-domain patient flow scorecard. Each domain has several weighted sub-metrics that add up to 20 points, so the maximum number of points in the composite score is 100. Improvement team leaders
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