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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

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Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

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The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

December 14th, 2015

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 2015
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

June 1st, 2012
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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

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The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...

October 8th, 2009
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