A process improvement project at one endoscopy center has identified a consistent delay in inpatient procedural start times as a culprit for reduced patient throughput. The project, presented at 2023 Canadian Digestive Diseases Week 2023, looked at maximizing endoscopy unit efficiency over a period of 12 months by adding one completed procedure per day.
“It wasn’t that we needed more resources,” said lead researcher Mayur Brahmania, MD, MPH, a gastroenterologist/hepatologist and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. “It was that we needed to better utilize the time we already had.”