> BTW older members of the list remember my total detestation
> of the term "Streaming". Patients are patients and cannot be
> streamed it is another term brought in by the quasi managers
> and quasi neo-acaedemics of our profession who equate running
> a hospital with a car production plant.
I'd disagree with you that running a hospital does not at least have
parallels with running a car production plant. You certainly can stream
patients and in some cases you should- for example critically ill patients
go to resus and get seen straight away. As with running car production
streaming creates a series of parallel queues and increases overall delays.
Matt Dunn
Warwick
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