Hospitals commonly conduct stress test to study the heart mu

Hospitals commonly conduct stress test to study the heart muscle half a person is had a heart attack. Members of diagnostic imaging department conduct quality improvement checks with the objective of reducing the turnaround time for stress test. Turnaround time is defined as the time from when the test is order to win the radiologist signs off on the test results. Initially, the mean turnaround time for the stress test at 61 hours. After incorporating changes into the stress test process, a quality improvement team collected a sample of 50 turnaround times. In the sample the main turnaround time was 39 hours, with a standard deviation of 7 hours.