Process mining is an underutilized clinical research tool in transfusion medicine.
Background: To understand inventory performance, transfusion services commonly use key performance indicators (KPIs) as summary descriptors of inventory efficiency that are graphed, trended, and used to benchmark institutions.Study Design and Methods: Here, we summarize current limitations in KPI-ba...
| Publicado en: | Transfusion Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 501 - 504 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2017
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