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Lean Six Sigma in Health Care: Improving Utilization and Reducing Waste
Abstract
Healthcare costs have been increasing worldwide mainly due to over utilization of resources. The savings potentially achievable from systematic, comprehensive, and cooperative reduction in waste are far higher than from more direct and blunter cuts in care and coverage. At King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center inappropriate and over utilization of the glucose test strips used for whole blood glucose determination using glucometers was observed. The hospital implemented a project to improve its utilization. Using the Six Sigma DMAIC approach (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control), an efficient practice was put in place including updating the related internal policies and procedures and the proper implementation of an effective users' training and competency check off program. That resulted in decreasing the unnecessary Quality Control (QC) runs from 13% to 4%, decreasing the failed QC runs from 14% to 7%, lowering the QC to patient testing ratio from 24/76 to 19/81.
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de Barros, L. B., Bassi, L. D. C., Caldas, L. P., Sarantopoulos, A., Zeferino, E. B. B., Minatogawa, V., & Gasparino, R. C. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18147389 · Cited by 90
Metadata
- Authors
- Lamia, A., & Mohamed, K.
- Affiliations
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (SA)
- Venue
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Published
- 2016
- Volume
- 226
- Pages
- 194-7
- ISSN
- 0926-9630 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2473440111
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 2.61
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Studies in health technology and informatics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Medical Laboratory Technology › Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Healthcare Quality and Management
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Keywords
- Lean Six Sigma, healthcare waste reduction, blood glucose test strips, blood glucose meters, DMAIC, health care costs
- MeSH terms
- Blood Glucose, Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Efficiency, Organizational, Hospital Costs, Total Quality Management, Point-of-Care Systems, Quality Improvement
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