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Dramatic improvement of a mature process : proactive process improvement
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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The improvement paradox : three essays on process improvement initiatives
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Discharge Improvement Process
… of delays, so that the desired goals would show improvements in patient outcomes, efficient utilization scores, increase in productivity and an increase in patient satisfaction scores. The global aim statement is to improve the discharge process on the Medical Surgical Telemetry Units. The …
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Obstetric Triage Improvement
<p>The objective of the obstetric triage improvement project is to decrease the average length of stay for perinatal patients presenting to the obstetric triage. The setting is a university hospital in a large urban city. The population includes pregnant patients with obstetric complaints …
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Emergency Response Improvement Project
… two problems were chosen as a focus for improvement: limited educational opportunities, and poor coordination and delegation during codes. Lewins’s theory of change was used as the theoretical framework, which involves the concept of unfreezing, movement, and refreezing. The method …
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Outpatient Medication Error Improvement
<p><strong>Patient Safety Initiative -Improving Medication Administration (Outpatient Care)</strong></p> <p><strong>SPECIFIC AIM:</strong> We aim to Improve the medication administration process and involve all staff within 6 months</p> <p>In the microsystem consisting of 14 family practice and …
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Telemedicine Quality Improvement Study
… providers and their patients alike. This quality improvement comparative analysis study consisted of simulations representing current-state and future-state telemedicine consultation appointments. The future-state consultation utilized a developer edition of HoloLens, a mixed reality head-mounted …
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Genetic improvement of swine
… part, be applicable to R.O.P. and other swine improvement schemes.
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INNOVATION IN YIELD IMPROVEMENT
… Then, innovative step-by-step methods for yield improvement for both systematic and "unknown" failures were evaluated. SWLY and SLLY were employed to enhance the yield for systematic failures. For "unknown" yield loss, bitmapping was used for SRAM wafers to isolate the specific faulty areas of …
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Realizing Sustained School Improvement
… work of practitioners and researchers. School improvement proves a complicated, confusing and most often troubled process; one characterized by the unprecedented challenges of dramatic societal shift, increasing levels of student need, and ongoing involvement from political and governmental …
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Process Improvement in Phlebotomy
… have not been combined before in a process improvement effort. A structured framework combining them is developed to benefit future study of phlebotomy and other hospital processes.
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Improvement of constrained searches
Search is ubiquitous in computer science, but most searches are performed under constraints: time, memory, dependences. We study several cases of constrained search and present methods for improving their performance. Execution of Prolog programs amounts to a search with several types of …
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Weld inspection process improvement
… change in the culture and execution of how improvements are made to weld inspection processes.
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Massachusetts Neighborhood Improvement Program
Thesis. 1977. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Equipment Installation Quality Improvement
… Both of these projects introduce novel quality improvements in order to decrease maintenance technician re-work and reduce post-operational equipment failures. This thesis captures the successful techniques that were used in the case study, rationale for why they were chosen, and highlights the …
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Doctor of nursing practice quality improvement project : free medical clinic diagnostic testing process improvement
Background/Significance: Missed or delayed diagnostics can have an impact on a patient's care and can have medical-legal consequences for health organizations and personnel alike (Callen et al., 2012). Kwan et al. (2019) report that deficient laboratory testing processes can be attributed to safety …
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SPECIMEN LABELING IMPROVEMENT PROJECT: SLIP
… highlighted system safety points. This quality improvement process applied across adult and pediatric acute and critical care units provided dramatic reductions in blood specimen labeling errors pre/post intervention.</p>
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Discipline problems: ways of improvement
<p>The purpose of this study was to discover new ways of assisting students that have behavioral problems and the teachers of those students.</p> <p>The subjects in this study were four teachers and their first and second grade students. The teachers were three females and one male. Two of the …
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Soil improvement by vertical drains
Vertical drains are used in soft clays and silts to accelerate primary consolidation. In this study a practical method for predicting the magnitude and rate of settlement and pore water pressure dissipation of soft clays under embankment type of loading is described. A computer procedure, ILLICON, …
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A model performance index improvement.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1977
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