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Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > April, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 4

Business Advisor

Give Your Facility a Lean Makeover

David Belson, PhD

Just as with a factory production line, you can break surgery down into a sequence of steps and isolate areas of waste, redundancy and inefficiency. Here are 6 ways the lean manufacturing principles that helped Toyota become the world's most productive automaker can improve the flow and productivity of your ORs.

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