Root Cause Analysis of the Causes of Wastage Fishbone Diagram (Cause-and-Effect Diagram) A fishbone diagram, also commonly known as cause and effect diagram or Ishikawa diagram, is a graphical tool to identify the potential causes of a specific event. It was invented by Kaoru Ishikawa in the 1960s for the quality management processes in the Kawasaki shipyards. The causes are grouped into major categories (usually include People, Method, Material, Machine, Measurement and Environment) to identify the sources of variation (Wikipedia, 2014). The categories can also be modified according to the type of event or requirement. The fishbone diagram looks like the skeleton of a fish. Generally, it works from right to left, with each large “bone” of the fish branching out to include smaller bones, containing more details (TechTarget, 2014). The causes are usually derived from brainstorming sessions. This diagram is used as a quality tool and its application is widely used in all kinds of business including healthcare. Application of Fishbone Diagram to Analyze the High Wastage of RBC Units The fishbone diagram can be very useful in analyzing the problem and finding the root causes. For analysis of high wastage of RBC products, the causes were grouped into three main categories: Staffs, Methods and Management. The details of the analysis are discussed below: Evaluation of Staffs The laboratory staffs are the front-liners of any laboratory services. They handle and perform the tasks in everyday basis. Therefore, it is very essential to keep them well informed and aware of the problem. While analyzing the causes for the staffs, we learned that the staffs knew very less about the wastage of the products. In fact, they lacked the realizat... ... middle of paper ... ...save the unnecessary waste and cost due to expiration on the products. However, there is no formal procedure in the lab to use the website for exchanging products between other facilities. Only few staffs are aware about it and rarely used for posting the products. Therefore, the lab has not been able to implement the process yet, which actually has potential in saving expiring units. Moreover, the secondary lab does not have a procedure on generating report on expiring units. The report can be printed directly from LIS, which include the list of all of the upcoming expiring units. As a result, the staffs can easily monitor and transfer the products to the main lab in a timely manner. Lack of procedure has led the staffs unaware of this process, hence, resulting in failing to meet the criteria of transferring the units to the main lab five days prior to expiration.
When reagents, solvents, or standards are ordered, consideration shall be given to the recommended expiration dates. These substances shall be obtained in amounts that will be utilized prior to the expiration date if possible.
First, this text will discuss some background on Labcorp to form a better understanding of the business, and the practices used. Labcorp is one of the largest clinical Laboratories in the world, which includes many wholly owned subsidiaries. The Laboratory Corporation of America (2013) website LabCorp has over 220,000 clients and process over 400,000 samples per day. LabCorp uses an innovative clinical laboratory processing, referral, and specimen testing information systems to create fluent, and easy to use specimen processing and testing. This process has developed through time, and LabCorp has grown into a robust multi- laboratory testing facilities through the buyout, and absorption of numerous specialty laboratories. As the buyout of subsidiaries has been a large part of the growth of this business, information technology had to grow along side, as the connection between all sites became critical for survival, to keep the stance of a premier multifunctional Laboratory tycoon (Laboratory Corporation of America, 2013).
On a daily basis I see the work me and my team delivers in accomplishing the needs of the projects at Abbvie is incomparable. The amount of in-flow and out-flow of data associated to the patients, several hundreds of products, testing results, analysis, modeling and other areas is humungous in number. On daily basis, an estimated amount of data that Abbvie handles is close to 3 million records per day. The team I work for her is product analysis and production support through in which I work in identifying the data and applying a quantitative and statistical method in capturing and formalizing the actual numbers from the expected numbers. These daily reports and results are the key business metric figures that will allow our department to further generate reports in layman terms which is the basic to control the performance of the product support. As a part of my daily activity, I involve completely into the supply chain management system, understand the functionality of the products, capture the hierarchy of the products, ensure proper product support and knowledge items are delivered to the agents and end users and finally capture the huge number of quantitative success percentage of Abbvie’s products that provides the management a deep insight of what product would need more focus in improving its ranking among the areas of community health, health, psychological positivism of the customer about the products. These figures on an overall scale, indirectly help Abbvie to improve and streamline its product line in terms of confidence of selling and as well using the products by the agents and end-customers.
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In regenerative anemia, the bone marrow is responding to the anemia by increasing the erythrocyte or red blood cell production. This means that there will be an increase in immature red blood cells in the circulating blood. On a blood smear it is likely to notice nucleated red blood cells (nRBCs), polychromatophils, an increase in reticulocytes, and also Howell-Jolly bodies (HJ bodies). The cause of this type of anemia is usually hemorrhage or hemolysis. Since the bone marrow is responding, it is likely that the red cell mass will eventually return to normal once the bone marrow has produced enough red blood cells to make up for the significant loss. Since the patient has lost a substantial amount of blood, albumin and globulin levels are usually decreased. The mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of the animal is going to be increased during this time because of the fact that the reticulocytes are larger than mature erythrocytes. The mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) will be decreased. This is decreased as a result of the immature red blood cells, especially the reticulocytes, since they are larger cells that have less hemoglobin, because the bone marrow is trying to produce cells as quickly as possible, but due to that t...
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The branch of hematology in biomedical science has a significant effect on society in the modern world. The understanding of several diseases that occur due to the nature of the blood are influenced by the scientific discipline of hematology. These are distinctively visible in the identification of diseases such as blood cancer, anemia and abnormalities of blood coagulation that are detected using hematological tests. Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (FISH), Karyotype Test and Serum Ferritin are a few of the haematological tests that were carried out in biomedical science industry.
Cause-and-effect diagrams are charts that identify potential causes for particular quality problems. They are often called fishbone diagrams because they look like the bones of a fish. A general cause-and-effect diagram is shown in Figure . The “head” of the fish is the quality problem, such as damaged zippers on a garment or broken valves on a tire. The diagram is drawn so that the “spine” of the fish connects the “head” to the possible cause of the problem. These causes could be related to the machines, workers, measurement, suppliers, materials, and many other aspects of the production process. Each of these possible causes can then have smaller “bones” that address specific issues that relate to each cause.
This branch of biomedical science has a significant effect on the society of the modern world. The science of haematology significantly influences the understanding of several diseases due to the nature of the blood. This is clearly visible during identification of diseases such as leukaemia, anaemia and abnormalities of blood coagulation that are completed through haematological tests. Some of the haematological tests done in biomedical science industry include of Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (FISH), Karyotype Test and Serum Ferritin.
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