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Author Ghiyasinasab, Marzieh, author

Title Reducing wait time in diagnostic assessment for cancer by implementing lean management principles / Marzieh Ghiyasinasab, Samira Keivanpour, Morteza Zohrabi, Sanaz Ghazi, John Fedirko, Gene Macdonald
Published London : SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals, 2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series SAGE Business cases
SAGE Business cases
Summary Sarah had six months to meet her hospital cancer center's target of diagnosing 65% of all patients within 28 days of referral. Funding from her grant source would lapse, and unless she could shorten the assessment timeline, patient volumes would remain too low to make up for the funding loss. Despite the best efforts of management and staff, and repeated internal attempts to improve performance, the center was ranked in the bottom three of all similar centers in the province. To address this ongoing problem and be able to add patient capacity, the center contracted a consultant to analyze and identify ways to improve the process, which involved both clinical and diagnostic functions, not to mention several communication and handoff points.After interviewing key staff members and observing processes at the center, the consulting team offered Sarah some options for how they could proceed, each with different risks, advantages, time commitments, and price points. Sarah needed to make a choice quickly so the team could dig into their work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Decision making -- Case studies
Decision making.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Keivanpour, Samira, author
Zohrabi, Morteza, author
Ghazi, Sanaz, author
Fedirko, John, author
Macdonald, Gene, author
ISBN 9781529793949
1529793947