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. 2010 Feb 8;10:2. doi: 10.1186/1472-6890-10-2

Table 2.

Inventory or wait times for specimens between process steps

Process step Wait pre-Lean Wait post-Lean Percent improvement
Accessioning to grossing 2.5 hours 2.5 hours 0.0%
Gross description to processor 3.5 3.0 14%
Embedding to microtomy 2.5 2.5 0.0%
Microtomy to H&E staining 1.0 0.75 25%
H&E Staining to Case Assembly 1.5 1.0 33%