Applying the Principles of Lean Production to Gastrointestinal Biopsy Handling: From the Factory Floor to the Anatomic Pathology Laboratory.

Objectives: To implement Lean principles to accommodate expanding volumes of gastrointestinal biopsies and to improve laboratory processes overall. Design: Our continuous improvement (kaizen) project analyzed the current state for gastrointestinal biopsy handling using value-stream mapping for speci...

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Published in:	Laboratory Medicine Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 259 - 265
Main Authors:	Sugianto, Jessica Z., Stewart, Brian, Ambruzs, Josephine M., Arista, Amanda, Park, Jason Y., Cope-Yokoyama, Sandy, Luu, Hung S.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Summer2015
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost