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Visualize
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All people involved in the care process should have an overview of what happens, where one's colleagues are and where the patient is in the care chain.
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Link patient care activities
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The various activities that compose a patient's care process should, if possible, be linked together or even be performed in parallel.
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Takt (work pace)
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Different activities can take different time, but the goal is to decrease the variability in the time to complete each step in the process and to achieve a steady work pace to meet projected demand.
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First-time quality
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By getting things right the first time, quality is improved and the need for rework is reduced.
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Standardize
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To the extent possible, patient care processes should be standardized to reduce wasteful patient-to-patient variability.
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Continual improvement
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Processes and practices can be adjusted several times-by testing, evaluating, and trying again, using a scientific approach-before work flows smoothly
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