Lean Strategies in the Operating Room. Anesthesiol Clin 2015 Dec;33(4):713-30
Date
11/28/2015Pubmed ID
26610625DOI
10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.010Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84961960507 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 21 CitationsAbstract
Lean strategies can be readily applied to health care in general and operating rooms specifically. The emphasis is on the patient as the customer, respect and engagement of all providers, and leadership from management. The strategy of lean is to use continuous improvement to eliminate waste from the care process, leaving only value-added activities. This iterative process progressively adds the steps of identifying the 7 common forms of waste (transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, overprocessing, and defects), 5S (sort, simplify, sweep, standardize, sustain), visual controls, just-in-time processing, level-loaded work, and built-in quality to achieve the highest quality of patient care.
Author List
Robinson ST, Kirsch JRMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Efficiency, OrganizationalHumans
Leadership
Operating Rooms
Quality Assurance, Health Care
