CEO Summary: Pathologists at Ottawa Hospital not only must handle a large volume of specimens regularly, but are experiencing a 14% per year growth in the number of specimens. Last year, when the average turnaround time for a case was nine days, the pathology department embarked on a series of Lean and process improvement projects. […]
Ottawa Pathology Lab Cuts Turnaround Time By More Than 50%
Specimen volume growing by 14% per year
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XX No.14 - October 21, 2013 Issue
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