PMID- 22745219
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130306
LR  - 20220321
IS  - 1527-1323 (Electronic)
IS  - 0271-5333 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 5
DP  - 2012 Sep-Oct
TI  - Quality initiatives: planning, setting up, and carrying out radiology process 
      improvement projects.
PG  - 1529-42
LID - 10.1148/rg.325125013 [doi]
AB  - In the coming decades, those who provide radiologic imaging services will be 
      increasingly challenged by the economic, demographic, and political forces 
      affecting healthcare to improve their efficiency, enhance the value of their 
      services, and achieve greater customer satisfaction. It is essential that 
      radiologists master and consistently apply basic process improvement skills that 
      have allowed professionals in many other fields to thrive in a competitive 
      environment. The authors provide a step-by-step overview of process improvement 
      from the perspective of a radiologic imaging practice by describing their 
      experience in conducting a process improvement project: to increase the daily 
      volume of body magnetic resonance imaging examinations performed at their 
      institution. The first step in any process improvement project is to identify and 
      prioritize opportunities for improvement in the work process. Next, an effective 
      project team must be formed that includes representatives of all participants in 
      the process. An achievable aim must be formulated, appropriate measures selected, 
      and baseline data collected to determine the effects of subsequent efforts to 
      achieve the aim. Each aspect of the process in question is then analyzed by using 
      appropriate tools (eg, flowcharts, fishbone diagrams, Pareto diagrams) to 
      identify opportunities for beneficial change. Plans for change are then 
      established and implemented with regular measurements and review followed by 
      necessary adjustments in course. These so-called PDSA (planning, doing, studying, 
      and acting) cycles are repeated until the aim is achieved or modified and the 
      project closed.
FAU - Tamm, Eric P
AU  - Tamm EP
AD  - Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer 
      Center, Houston, TX 77230-1402, USA. etamm@mdanderson.org
FAU - Szklaruk, Janio
AU  - Szklaruk J
FAU - Puthooran, Leejo
AU  - Puthooran L
FAU - Stone, Danna
AU  - Stone D
FAU - Stevens, Brian L
AU  - Stevens BL
FAU - Modaro, Cathy
AU  - Modaro C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20120627
PL  - United States
TA  - Radiographics
JT  - Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North 
      America, Inc
JID - 8302501
SB  - IM
MH  - Delivery of Health Care/*standards
MH  - *Models, Organizational
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care/*methods/*organization & administration
MH  - Radiology/*organization & administration
MH  - Texas
MH  - *Workflow
EDAT- 2012/06/30 06:00
MHDA- 2013/03/07 06:00
CRDT- 2012/06/30 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/03/07 06:00 [medline]
AID - rg.325125013 [pii]
AID - 10.1148/rg.325125013 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Radiographics. 2012 Sep-Oct;32(5):1529-42. doi: 10.1148/rg.325125013. Epub 2012 
      Jun 27.