Effectiveness of Toyota process redesign in reducing thyroid gland fine-needle aspiration error.

Stephen S Raab; Dana Marie Grzybicki; Daniel Sudilovsky; Ronald Balassanian; Janine E Janosky; Colleen M Vrbin

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Effectiveness of Toyota process redesign in reducing thyroid gland fine-needle aspiration error.

October 25, 2006

Raab SS, Grzybicki DM, Sudilovsky D, et al. Am J Clin Pathol. 2006;126(4):585-92.

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The authors compared the frequency of diagnostic error for a thyroid aspiration service before and after applying error reduction strategies. They found the changes led to significant improvements.

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