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The next two chapters describe the improvements made to a community-based acute care hospital’s Operating Room environment with respect to the following areas: (1) Chapter 4. Performing turn around time between surgical cases, and improve on-time start of operating room cases. (2) Chapter 5. Improve OR location and organization of equipment, instruments and supplies.
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Furterer, S.L. (2014). Operating Room Turnaround and On Time Starts Improvement. In: Lean Six Sigma Case Studies in the Healthcare Enterprise. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5583-6_4
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