Mapping Clinical Value Streams : Productivity Press : 9781466551848 : 1466551844 : 25 Jun 2013 : Tens of thousands of patients die unnecessarily every year as a result of errors and defects in our healthcare processes. Those that survive often pay too much for the privilege. The value stream mapping methods described in Mapping Clinical Value Streams will help you achieve more efficient health care processes and will pave the way to an improved medical system with significantly reduced medical errors and other costly waste. Part of the Lean Tools in Healthcare series, this user-friendly book will help you understand how to use value stream mapping to provide quality, patient-centered care. Value stream mapping is a powerful tool for observing and depicting processes as they truly are?and for envisioning and reconfiguring the same processes to eliminate errors and other waste. With this book, you'll learn how to: Map current-state processesCreate a future-state map with processes stre