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ReviewOrthopedic research and reviews2016

Current concept review: quality and process improvement in orthopedics.

Stephen J Pinney, Alexandra E Page, David S Jevsevar, Kevin J Bozic

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Review in Orthopedic research and reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Innovation in Orthopedics: Part 1-Design Thinking.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2022
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4 authors.

Stephen J PinneyDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, St Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA, sjpinney@yahoo.com.
Alexandra E PageOrthopaedic Surgery, AAOS Health Care Systems Committee, San Diego, CA, USA.
David S JevsevarDepartment of Orthopaedics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, USA.
Kevin J BozicDepartment of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple health care stakeholders are increasingly scrutinizing musculoskeletal care to optimize quality and cost efficiency. This has led to greater emphasis on quality and process improvement. There is a robust set of business strategies that are increasingly being applied to health care delivery. These quality and process improvement tools (QPITs) have specific applications to segments of, or the entire episode of, patient care. In the rapidly changing health care world, it will behoove all orthopedic surgeons to have an understanding of the manner in which care delivery processes can be evaluated and improved. Many of the commonly used QPITs, including checklist initiatives, standardized clinical care pathways, lean methodology, six sigma strategies, and total quality management, embrace basic principles of quality improvement. These principles include focusing on outcomes, optimizing communication among health care team members, increasing process standardization, and decreasing process variation. This review summarizes the common QPITs, including how and when they might be employed to improve care delivery.

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clinical care pathwaylean thinkingmusculoskeletal careoutcomesquality managementsix sigma

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PMID30774466
PMCPMC6209351

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