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‘Going to Gemba’—an accreditation specialist relates how Lean Six Sigma experience can work in healthcare

As a healthcare accreditation consultant and quality management professional, I have been exposed to a variety of improvement models within healthcare organizations: Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA), Total Quality Management (TQM), Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Quality Control (QC), and Rapid Cycle Improvement. All of these view process as a sequence of activities and communications that focus improving services to the customer or improving the quality of an outcome.

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