Objective: The increase in the financial imposition of laboratories together with developing
technology and evidence-based medicine applications increased the importance of quality …

Background: In the USA, the lack of processes standardisation in histopathology
laboratories leads to less than optimal quality, errors, inefficiency and increased costs. The …

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In the last decades, hospital laboratories are beset on all sides by demands to lower the
costs of laboratory procedures and at the same time to provide (i) more rapid and usable …

This is the first in a series of articles describing the application of Lean management systems
to Laboratory Medicine. Lean is the term used to describe a principle-based continuous …

Important in testing services in medical laboratories is the creation of a flexible balance
between quality-response time and minimizing the cost of the service. Beyond the different …

Background: Lean management is a process improvement technique to identify waste
actions and processes to eliminate them. The benefits of Lean for healthcare organizations …

Abstract Objectives: To implement Lean principles to accommodate expanding volumes of
gastrointestinal biopsies and to improve laboratory processes overall. Design: Our …

The Director of Pathology at Jackson Memorial Hospital was interested in improving the
operational efficiencies of the department in order to enhance the department's level of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implementation of lean methodology to
reduce the turnaround time (TAT) of a clinical laboratory in a super speciality hospital …