@article{JTD20940,
author = {Ava John-Baptiste},
title = {Who really benefits from surgical tray reduction?},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {10},
number = {Suppl 17},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Cichos and colleagues (1) describe applying the process of lean to surgical trays at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. Through a consensus process, three surgeons in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery identified the least number of instruments required for mediastinoscopy, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, robotic thoracic surgery and thoracotomy, achieving reductions of 75%, 62%, 61% and 44%, respectively.},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/20940}
}