Applying the Toyota production system to decrease the time required to transport patients undergoing surgery from the general ward to the operating room and reviewing the essence of lean thinking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sending a patient to the operating room is the first step in surgery. Delayed patient transport causes the patient to go hungry for a longer time, aggravating the patient's physical discomfort and psychological stress. The issue of delays in transporting inpatients to the operating room has rarely been discussed in the literature. The Toyota production system is a famous and excellent scientific method of reducing waste and increasing efficiency. Our goal is to use the Toyota method to decrease the time required to transport the inpatient to the operating room and to review the concepts underlying lean thinking.

Methods

We employed an A3 8-step problem-solving process. A current value stream map featuring numerical data (concerning 46 patients) measured in the wor

SUBMITTER: Lin CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9769121 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature