With the rapid expansion of knowledge and technology and a health care system that
performs far below acceptable levels for ensuring patient safety and needs, front-line health …

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of management in the health care sector.
Positive correlations have been found between clinical and economic performance …

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Objective: In recognition of patient wait times, and deteriorating patient and staff satisfaction,
we set out to improve these measures in our emergency department (ED) without adding …

To make hospitals more patient-centered it is necessary to intervene on patient flow
logistics. The study analyzes three innovative redesign projects implemented at three Italian …

Hospital productivity is of great importance to policymakers, and previous research
demonstrates that improved hospital productivity can be achieved by directing more focus …

Through a comparative study of six Italian hospitals, the paper develops and tests a
framework to analyze hospital-wide patient flow performance. The framework adopts a …

2 years' follow-up from 9.8% to 7.2% 14; this finding was confirmed in other trials. 15–18
However, not until 1996, more than a decade after the original publication of scientific …

Purpose Treatment delays must be avoided, especially in oncology, to assure sustainable
high-quality health care and increase the odds of survival. The purpose of this paper is to …

Background: The emergency department (ED) is a complex, volatile, and limited-resource
healthcare setting. Many environmental factors, including high patient volumes …