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Resident-Driven Holistic Lean Daily Management System to Enhance Care Experience at a Safety Net Hospital. Urology 2020 Jun;140:56-63

Date

03/08/2020

Pubmed ID

32145240

DOI

10.1016/j.urology.2020.01.038

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85083287910 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   3 Citations

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of Lean in urology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, a community safety-net and trauma hospital that serves as a major teaching site for the University of California San Francisco.

METHODS: We examined our process improvement activities from 2016 to 2018. Our Lean Daily Management System (DMS) includes a 15-minute team huddle ("urology Lean work") of service residents, faculty, clinic and operating room nursing staff, and anesthesia liaisons. Our DMS also includes a 5-minute preoperative huddle. Besides team-building, urology Lean work surfaces logistics, safety or equipment improvement ideas, and ensures progress and completion of initiated projects.

RESULTS: Over a 2-year period we developed and completed 67 projects. Projects impacted the outpatient setting (57%), followed by the operating room (22%), the Urology service (12%), and inpatient setting (9%). We completed projects in the following domains: safety (26%), quality (22%), care experience (21%), workforce care and development (13%), equity (11%), and financial stewardship (7%). Urology Lean work reduced new patient clinic access time (119-21 days) and Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in clinic treatment time (180-105 minutes). The average proportion of urology on-time surgeries was better than the overall surgery on-time surgeries (71% v 61%).

CONCLUSION: Urology Lean work successfully applied DMS in a service specific yet holistic approach. Urology Lean work improved resident engagement in quality and safety endeavors and served as a DMS model throughout perioperative and clinic areas.

Author List

Tresh A, Cohen AJ, Mmonu NA, Berdy S, Barnas K, Krombach J, Breyer BN

Author

Jens Krombach MD Vice Chair, Director, Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Internship and Residency
Quality Improvement
Quality of Health Care
Safety-net Providers
Urology