Six Sigma leads health facility to better industry benchmark
As its average length of stay for congestive heart failure patients was 2.3 days more than Medicare's benchmark of 4.2 days, the Six Sigma team at Virtua Health, a four-hospital US health provider, analysed patient data using Six Sigma methodologies and discovered significant process variations. These included discharge delays because of test result hold ups…
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