TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Preface
A1  - Inozu, Bahadir
A1  - Chauncey, Dan
A1  - Kamataris, Vickie
A1  - Mount, Charles
PY  - 2018
T2  - Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management
AB  - On  November  16,  1960,  at  3:00  A.M.,  I  was  being  strangled  by  my  umbilical  cord.  A  doctor  asked  how  my  mother  was  feeling.  She  explained  that  she  was  feeling  better  after  some  minor  discomfort  she  had  been  experiencing.  Fortunately,  the  doctor  decided  to  check  my  fetal  heartbeat  in  utero  just  in  case.  The  doctor  determined  that  my  heartbeat  was  extremely  slow  and  that  I  was  about  to  die.  The  doctor  rushed  my  mother  to  the  operating  room  for  an  emergency  cesarean  section.  My  life  was  saved.  I  am  thankful  that  the  system  worked  in  this  instance.  Many  other  babies  have  not  been  as  fortunate.  In  fact,  witnessing  the  preventable  deaths  of  two  babies  was  so  painful  that  it  triggered  a  career  change  and  a  passion  to  improve  healthcare  processes  and  systems  for  one  of  this  book’s  coauthors.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/24
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150170111
ER  -