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Systematic and quantitative assessment and application of FMEA and Lean six sigma for reducing non productive time in operation theatre of a Tertiary Care Hospital in a metropolis

Khushboo Gaur
- 01 Sep 2019 - 
- Vol. 16, pp 100075
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It is shown that by improving list management, OR rescheduling, reducing patient pathway time, reinforcing DayCare Surgery Program and establishing Pre-anesthesia clinic, improves the overall OR efficiency.
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This article is published in Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management.The article was published on 2019-09-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lean Six Sigma.

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Deng Entropy Weighted Risk Priority Number Model for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

TL;DR: Deng entropy is utilized to construct the exponential weight of each risk factor as well as an expert’s relative importance on an FMEA item in a state-of-the-art way and the strategy of assigning weight for each expert is flexible and compatible to the real decision-making situation.
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A fuzzy multicriteria group decision approach for classification of failure modes in a hospital's operating room

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a new group decision model, which combines a consensus reaching process with ELECTRE TRI and double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (DHHFLTS).
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Coordination Difficulties in the Management of Operation Theatre in Children Hospital Lahore.

TL;DR: Management of the operation theatre requires the coordination of humane and material resources in such a way that surgery can be performed safely, efciently and cost effectively.
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Analysis of Failure Modes in Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery Using the Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) Technique

TL;DR: Establishing a risk management committee seems essential to identify errors and improve the design and plan of different techniques so as to execute, monitor, control, and review errors in a cycle of continuous improvement.
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Cancelled elective general surgical operations in Ayub Teaching Hospital.

TL;DR: Cancellation of patients on operation lists occupy a substantial population (25%) of cases and Majority of cancellation were due to reasons other than patients medical conditions.
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Preoperative screening and risk assessment in the ambulatory surgery patient.

TL;DR: Routine preoperative investigations in the healthy patient, including electrocardiogram are, today, unwarranted and have not been shown to improve outcome, so patient outcome can be improved, specifically for the sicker patients at a higher risk.
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Preanesthesia evaluation for ambulatory surgery: do we make a difference?

TL;DR: Current literature supports a preanesthesia visit that focuses on individual patient evaluations and patient-directed effective interventions, in contrast to the previous routine, protocolized preoperative preparations.

Causes of postponement of elective surgery in mayo hospital lahore

TL;DR: As a large proportion of postponements was due to mismanagement of the list time, it was clear that there was lack of proper list planning and unrealistic time allotment for cases led to a large number of cancellations at the end of the day.
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