Applying lean in healthcare
Subtitle: a collection of international case studies
By: edited by Joe Aherne and John Whelton.
Contributors: Aherne, Joe.; Whelton, John.
Publisher: Productivity Press; CRC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781439827390
Subjects: Health services administration; Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration; Delivery of Health Care -- economics; Efficiency, Organizational; Organizational Case Studies; Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to lean healthcare; title: Making it lean; title: Providing rapid access to a vascular surgery outpatient clinic; title: Reorganizing and standardizing supply rooms across a health system; title: A quickstart lean method to cut the clutter and get your hospital back into shape; title: Applying lean thinking to the outpatient registration process; title: Establishing a standardized and efficient client laboratory supplies process; title: Improving accommodation and organizational arrangements at an outpatient antenatal clinic; title: Improving wait times at a medical oncology unit; title: Minimizing the time from 'cooking pot to patient'; title: A journey in lean : bringing about change, improving quality for the patient, and developing the culture of a healthcare organization; title: Reducing surgery cancellation rates; title: The future for lean healthcare.