Purpose–There has been considerable interest in the implementation of practices imported
from manufacturing into healthcare as a solution to rising healthcare spending and …

Purpose–Increasingly, healthcare providers are implementing lean practices to achieve
quality results. Implementing lean healthcare practices is unique compared to manufacturing …

Lean is endorsed as policy in practice in the UK but the challenges and complexities
affecting Lean in healthcare are still to be adequately assessed. Through a qualitative single …

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Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how
it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically …

Background Lean seems to be the next revolution for a better, improved, value-based
healhcare. In the last 15 years Lean has been increasingly adapted and adopted in …

Continual pressures on healthcare budgets coupled with increasing demands (Institute of
Medicine, 2012; OECD, 2002; Porter and Lee, 2013) and evidence of poor performance …

Abstract The Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that, on average, hospitalized patients are
subject to at least one medication error per day. Patient safety and service quality systems …

Purpose Fostered by a rapid spread beyond the manufacturing sector, Lean philosophy for
continuous improvement has been widely used in service organizations, primarily in the …

Lean principles emerged in the Japanese manufacturing industry after the Second World
War. Lean management focuses on improving product quality while eliminating waste …