Optimizing Workflow of Urgent Stroke Endovascular Intervention: A Focused Lean Six Sigma Project

: Urgent endovascular intervention is currently accepted as the primary and critical therapeutic approach to patients whose acute ischemic stroke results from a large arterial occlusion (LAO). In this context, one of the quality metrics most widely applied to the assessment of emergency systems performance is the “door-to-puncture” (D-P) time. We undertook a project to identify the subinterval of the D-P metric causing the most impact on workflow delays and created a narrowly focused project on improving such subinterval.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research