%0 Journal Article
%T Process mapping as a framework for performance improvement in emergency general surgery
%A Chad Kim Sing
%A Emilie Joos
%A Karan D¡¯Souza
%A Kristin DeGirolamo
%A Morad Hameed
%A Naisan Garraway
%A Patrick McLaughlin
%A William Hall
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery".
%D 2018
%R 10.1503/cjs.004417
%X Emergency general surgery conditions are often thought of as being too acute for the development of standardized approaches to quality improvement. However, process mapping, a concept that has been applied extensively in manufacturing quality improvement, is now being used in health care. The objective of this study was to create process maps for small bowel obstruction in an effort to identify potential areas for quality improvement
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5785284/