Managing Unnecessary Variability in Patient Demand to Reduce Nursing Stress and Improve Patient Safety.¶
Litvak, E., Buerhaus, P. I., Davidoff, F., Long, M. C., McManus, M. L., & Berwick, D. M. (2005). Managing Unnecessary Variability in Patient Demand to Reduce Nursing Stress and Improve Patient Safety. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 31(6), 330-338.
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- Unevenness Waste
- In healthcare operations it is the uneven elective-surgery schedule that produces ward gridlock on Mondays and idle beds on Fridays even when total weekly demand sits below total weekly capacity.
This sourceShows that smoothing the artificial variability of the elective-surgery schedule, not adding beds, relieves ward gridlock under feasible weekly totals.
- In healthcare operations it is the uneven elective-surgery schedule that produces ward gridlock on Mondays and idle beds on Fridays even when total weekly demand sits below total weekly capacity.
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