The goal is to "keep your vertical patients vertical and in motion," he continued. "For horizontal, badly sick, or badly hurt patients, it’s about real estate. You only want patients in beds who need beds, and you want them in beds only for as long as they need to be."
Dr. Jensen concluded by noting that there is no substitute for testing and prototyping a change in throughput process or performance. "You want to test your performance improvement efforts on a small scale, work out the bugs, build the collaboration of your teammates, get the data, and then go to hospital administration [for the support you may require]," he said.
Dr. Jensen said that he had no relevant financial conflicts to disclose.