Lean Six Sigma and anesthesia

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BACKGROUND: Demands for health services have been growing sharply. Consequently, the costs of the institutions for their operational maintenance and investments also increase. The challenge of hospital management is to achieve standards of quality and safety for patients, increasing their productivity and minimizing costs. Lean Six Sigma is a well-structured methodology that aims to eliminate waste and activities that do not add value, focused on reducing process variation, eliminating the causes of the defect, and improving performance. As a result, cost reduction, higher quality, and customer satisfaction are observed.

OBJECTIVES: To define Lean Six Sigma methodology and search references in the literature on its use in Health and specifically in Anesthesiology.

CONTENT: How often the waste of medicines, materials and time (rework), as well as the errors that happen in the day-to-day of the anesthesiologist are reported. Anesthesiologists must know the impact of their professional practice, with the purpose of making more appropriate choices, thus reducing the damage to the environment, improving overall health, and reducing costs with health care. The use of the Lean Six Sigma methodology is suggested to make the anesthesia field more sustainable, improving the processes without prejudice to the patient.

CONCLUSION: Lean Six Sigma methodology is a new business management strategy in the health area. It is perfectly inserted in the current context of quality and safety to the patient; therefore, relevant in the practice of anesthesiology.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

Enthalten in:

Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier) - 69(2019), 5 vom: 11. Sept., Seite 502-509

Sprache:

Portugiesisch

Weiterer Titel:

Lean Seis Sigma e anestesia

Beteiligte Personen:

Cançado, Thais Orrico de Brito [VerfasserIn]
Cançado, Fernando Brito [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Marcelo Luis Abramides [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anestesiologia
Anesthesiology
Centro cirúrgico
Gestão
Journal Article
Lean Seis Sigma
Lean Six Sigma
Management
Operating room
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.05.2020

Date Revised 01.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bjan.2018.12.012

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301311927