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Mary Godley1, Jeanne B Jenkins
1Alamance Regional Medical Center-Cone Health, Burlington, North Carolina (Dr Godley); and School of Nursing, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Dr Jenkins).
Background:
Patient satisfaction scores in the vascular interventional radiology department were low, especially related to wait times in registration and for tests/treatments, with low scores for intentions to recommend.
Purpose:
The purpose of our quality improvement project was to decrease wait times and improve patient satisfaction using Lean Six Sigma's define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC) framework with a pre-/postintervention design.
Results:
There was a statistically significant decrease in wait times (P < .0019) and an increase in patient satisfaction scores in 3 areas: registration wait times (from 17 to 99 percentiles), test/treatment (from 19 to 60 percentiles), and likelihood to recommend (from 6 to 97 percentiles).
Conclusions:
Lean Six Sigma was an effective framework for use in decreasing wait times and improving patient satisfaction.
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