Why the study?
Prior to the project, the average time from outpatient consultation to scheduling elective orthopaedic surgery was 62 h/2.58 days, prompting a need to streamline the scheduling process.
Does a Lean Six Sigma and person-centred approach improve the scheduling process for elective orthopaedic surgery?
Population
Patients requiring elective orthopaedic surgery following an outpatient consultation
Comparison
Lean Six Sigma redesign vs pre-intervention scheduling process
Design
Pre- and post-team-based intervention study
Authors
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May streamline orthopaedic elective scheduling; leaves open generalizability and outcome impact in other settings.
Does a Lean Six Sigma and person-centred approach improve the scheduling process for elective orthopaedic surgery?
Applying Lean Six Sigma methodology to elective orthopaedic surgery scheduling successfully reduced scheduling time to within 48 hours and eliminated work duplication.
Daly et al. (2021) studied this question.
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