Improving theatre turnaround time

Improving theatre turnaround time

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has determined that a £7 million saving can be achieved per trust by improving theatre efficiency. The aim of this quality improvement project was to improve orthopaedic theatre turnaround without compromising the patient safety. We process mapped all the stages from application of dressing to knife to skin on the next patient in order to identif...

Improving Laboratory Results Turnaround Time By Reducing Pre Analytical Phase

Laboratory turnaround time is considered one of the most important indicators of work efficiency in hospitals, physicians always need timely results to take effective clinical decisions especially in the emergency department where these results can guide physicians whether to admit patients to the hospital, discharge them home or do further investigations. A retrospective data analysis study wa...

Improving operating theatre efficiency in South Africa.

Turnaround Time for Messages of Differing Priorities

Queuing theory and statistical methods are used in this paper to derive formulas for determining average turnaround time in teleprocessing systems that handle messages on a priority basis. This information is needed to ensure, for example, that messages are processed within acceptable time limits and that eficient use is macle of system resources. Factors considered in arriving at the formulas ...

Improving Pap test turnaround time using external benchmark data and engineering process improvement tools.

Turnaround time for Papanicolaou (Pap) tests became an important service quality issue at our institution. We studied Pap test turnaround time using engineering process improvement tools and benchmarked turnaround time against data published as a College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study. An IDEF3 process map revealed the complexity of the Pap test process and the opportunities for proces...