Increasing cardio-thoracic productivity at Erasmus MC

Maartje Zonderland; Jos Bekkers; Jasper van Bommel; Maarten Ter Horst; Wouter van Leeuwen; Femke van den Wall Bake; Willem Wiegersma; Ad Bogers

doi:10.1080/20476965.2020.1848357

Increasing cardio-thoracic productivity at Erasmus MC

Maartje Zonderland^*, Jos Bekkers, Jasper van Bommel, Maarten Ter Horst, Wouter van Leeuwen, Femke van den Wall Bake, Willem Wiegersma, Ad Bogers

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The Thoraxcenter of Erasmus MC started an improvement project in 2015 in order to increase the number of open-heart surgeries by 150 for three consecutive years (450 in total, +46%), and to decrease the access time from 12-14 to 2-3 weeks by the end of 2016. This was required to attain economy of scale in a highly competitive market. In this paper we describe the first year of the project, focusing on its structure and interventions taken, resulting in 165 additional open-heart surgeries carried out in 2016 and a significantly shorter access time of 2-3 weeks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	68-74
Number of pages	7
Journal	Health Systems
Volume	11
Issue number	1
Early online date	26 Nov 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/20476965.2020.1848357
Publication status	Published - Nov 2022

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