567 What's Taking so Long? Optimizing Efficiency in the Endoscopy Unit

Why is dracunculiasis eradication taking so long?

The long time needed for global eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) was not anticipated at the outset. The successful eradication of smallpox in 10 years compares with the target date set in 1985 for dracunculiasis eradication - 1995. Seventeen years after that date, transmission continues. Why? Various factors are responsible, mainly lack of resources, or resources ineffectivel...

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Optimizing efficiency and operations at a California safety-net endoscopy center: a modeling and simulation approach.

BACKGROUND Improvements in endoscopy center efficiency are needed, but scant data are available. OBJECTIVE To identify opportunities to improve patient throughput while balancing resource use and patient wait times in a safety-net endoscopy center. SETTING Safety-net endoscopy center. PATIENTS Outpatients undergoing endoscopy. INTERVENTION A time and motion study was performed and a dis...

Five-star service in an endoscopy unit.

Evaluation of interventional endoscopy unit efficiency metrics at a tertiary academic medical center.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS There is an increasing demand for interventional endoscopic services and the need to develop efficient endoscopic units. The aim of this study was to analyze performance data and define metrics to improve efficiency in a single academic interventional endoscopy center. ] PATIENTS AND METHODS The prospective operations performance data (6-month period) of our interven...