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Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories
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Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories

by Charles Protzman, Joyce Kerpchar, George Mayzell
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
330 pages
13h 59m
English
Productivity Press
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129Basic Lean Concepts and Tools– Assessment and Analyze
so changes in case mix can be monitored and updated as surgical OR use changes, and room alloca-
tions can be adjusted accordingly.
Author’s Note
Technically, group technology is somewhat of a compromise between batch and Lean. For example,
in the Lean world we would want universal patient rooms on the oors or universal OR rooms.
Since it is not practical to have every room outtted for an ICU patient or every OR room outtted
with laminar ow hoods and robots, we leverage this by creating families of rooms using group
technology criteria. The idea behind group technology is to still i
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ISBN: 9781482234473