Applying lean methods to improve quality and safety in surgical sterile instrument processing

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 99-105

  Blackmore, C Craig ^a   Bishop, Robbi ^b   Luker, Samuel ^c   Williams, Barbara L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Kaizen Promotion Office   (United States)

^c Sterile Processing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STANDARD; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; STERILIZATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; WASHINGTON;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875424732     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(13)39014-x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Institute of Medicine: To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.
2. Kable AK, Gibberd RW, Spigelman AD. Adverse events in surgical patients in Australia. Int J Qual Health Care. 2002; 14(4):269-276.
3. Gawande AA, et al. The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992. Surgery.1999;126(1):66-75. (Pubitemid 29340693)
4. Levinson DR. Adverse Events in Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Washington, DC: US Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the Inspector General: Nov 2010. Accessed Jan 26, 2013. https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-09-00090.pdf.
5. Lefevre F, et al. Iatrogenic complications in high-risk, elderly patients. Arch Intern Med. 1992; 152(10):2074-2080.
6. Nicolay CR, et al. Systematic review of the application of quality improvement methodologies from the manufacturing industry to surgical healthcare. Br J Surg. 2012; 99(3):324-335.
7. Haynes AB, et al. A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. N Engl J Med. 2009 Jan 29; 360(5):491-499.
8. Ryckman FC, et al. Reducing surgical site infections at a pediatric academic medical center. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009; 35(4):192-198.
9. Chen T T, et al. Statistical process control as a tool for controlling operating room performance: Retrospective analysis and benchmarking. J Eval Clin Pract. 2010; 16(5):905-910.
10. Gagneux E, Lombrail P, Vichard P. Trauma emergency unit: Long-term evaluation of a quality assurance programme. Qual Health Care. 1998; 7(1): 12-18.
11. Khan SA, et al. Accidentally falling instruments during orthopaedic surgery: Time to wake up! ANZ J Surg. 2008; 78(9):794-795.
12. Wong J, et al. Delays in the operating room: Signs of an imperfect system. Can J Surg. 2010; 53(3):189-195.
13. Johnson D. Achieving Lean sterile processing. Healthcare Purchasing News. 2011; 35(9):46-51.
14. Prephan L. Surgical instrument availability. AORN J. 2005; 81:1017-1022.
15. Linkin DR, et al. Applicability of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to healthcare epidemiology: Evaluation of the sterilization and use of surgical instruments. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Oct 1; 41(7):1014-1019. (Pubitemid 41368226)
16. Park KW, Dickerson C. Can efficient supply management in the operating room save millions? Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2009; 22(2):242-248.
17. Penn E, Yasso S F, Wei JL. Reducing disposable equipment waste for tonsillectomy and adenotonsillectomy cases. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012; 147(4):615-618.
18. Ohno T. Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. New York City: Productivity Press, 1988.
19. Womack J P, Jones DT. Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2003.
20. Kenney C. Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center's Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011.
21. Bush RW. Reducing waste in US health care systems. JAMA. 2007 Feb 28; 297(8):871-874. (Pubitemid 46333952)
22. Furman C, Caplan R. Applying the Toyota Production System: Using a patient safety alert system to reduce error. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007; 33(7):376-386.
23. Kaplan GS. Waste not: The management imperative for healthcare. J Healthc Manag. 2012; 57(3):160-166.
24. Blackmore CC, Mecklenburg RS, Kaplan GS. At Virginia Mason, collaboration among providers, employers, and health plans to transform health care cut costs and improved quality. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011; 30(9):1680-1687.
25. Blackmore CC, Mecklenburg RS, Kaplan GS. Effectiveness of clinical decision support in controlling inappropriate imaging. J Am Coll Radiol. 2011; 8(1):19-25.
26. Collar RM, et al. Lean management in academic surgery. J Am Coll Surg. 2012; 214(6):928-936.