| Description |
1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction to lean healthcare -- Making it lean -- Providing rapid access to a vascular surgery outpatient clinic -- Reorganizing and standardizing supply rooms across a health system -- A quickstart lean method to cut the clutter and get your hospital back into shape -- Applying lean thinking to the outpatient registration process -- Establishing a standardized and efficient client laboratory supplies process -- Improving accommodation and organizational arrangements at an outpatient antenatal clinic -- Improving wait times at a medical oncology unit -- Minimizing the time from 'cooking pot to patient' -- A journey in lean : bringing about change, improving quality for the patient, and developing the culture of a healthcare organization -- Reducing surgery cancellation rates -- The future for lean healthcare |
| Summary |
Typically entrenched and systemic, healthcare problems require the sort of comprehensive solutions that can only be addressed by a change in culture and a shift in thinking. Applying Lean in Healthcare: A Collection of International Case Studies demonstrates how honest appraisal, intelligent planning, and vigilant follow-up have led to dramatic improvements in a variety of healthcare settings across the world. It teaches us how innovative organizations can find sustainable solutions to seemingly intractable problems by following a path guided by Lean Thinking. Lean methods may not solve every healthcare problem, but as these cases prove, changing a culture rather than personnel results in more effective sustainable change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Health services administration.
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Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration
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Delivery of Health Care -- economics
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Efficiency, Organizational
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Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods
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Organizational Case Studies
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MEDICAL -- Administration.
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MEDICAL -- Practice Management & Reimbursement.
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Health services administration
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aherne, Joe
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Whelton, John
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| ISBN |
9781439827406 |
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1439827400 |
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9781439883884 |
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1439883882 |
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1299854613 |
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9781299854611 |
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