[Histonet] Productivity Reports

[Rene J Buesa]

Productivity figures are fundamental to justify the staff you have or the one you will need if a work growth is expected or planned by your director.
There are many ways of figuring out productivity and not all tasks can be measured in the same way.
For instance:
1- FS productivity ought to be measured in the time (minutes) elapsing between the moment the specimen reached the FS area and the moment the histotech (HT) delivers to the pathologist (PT) the slides ready to read. By the way, this is the only task that CAP has developed a productivity standard and it is 20 minutes and the PT has to justify if any FS takes more than the required 20 minutes. As to the HT, the average productivity if 15 minutes.
2- For the lab supervisor, two productivity indices are casted blocks per hour, while embedding or blocks per hour while sectioning, and the list can be expanded to other tasks where the work unit is the block.
3- all in all, the Canadian model of measuring productivity, that I have included in my calculations, refers to the number of blocks (or cases in other occasions) divided by the total time it elapses between the moment the case is received at the lab. until the diagnosis is sent to the physician. That would be the Total Gross Work flow productivity.
 
There are many ways but what is absolutely certain is that if you want to have a grasp of your lab and staff and control their activities, as well as analyze the whole operation to improve the work flow, you need to determine productivity.
There are always those that, with reason, argue that excessive productivity can "damage" quality. The argument seems to be correct in general but in no way it can deter trying to be as productive as possible and maintain quality. There should be no compromises either way. An "ideal" quality cannot affect productivity, and viceversa.
Under separate cover I am sending 2 works I published on this issue. You should show them to your boss and let him/her select which productivity indices s/he prefers.
René J.

--- On Mon, 4/30/12, Scott, Allison D <Allison_Scott <@t> hchd.tmc.edu> wrote:


From: Scott, Allison D <Allison_Scott <@t> hchd.tmc.edu>
Subject: [Histonet] Productivity Reports
To: "histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 5:24 PM


Hello to all in histoland.  Does any one have to do productivity reports for their boss.  If so, what are you using for your unit of measure to say if your techs are being productive.  My boss is really into the numbers, graphs and charts.  I have a my techs fill out a workload recording form.  I really don't know where to begin trying to pull data from it for a report.  If anyone has any insight to this and has a report that they would be willing to share, I would be eternally grateful.

Allison Scott HT(ASCP)
Histology Supervisor
LBJ Hospital

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