Improving healthcare using Toyota lean production methods
Subtitle: 46 steps for improvement
By: Robert Chalice.
Contributors: Chalice, Robert.; American Society for Quality.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milwaukee, Wis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780873897136
Subjects: Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki Kaisha; Medical care -- Cost control; Medical care -- Quality control; Medical care -- Cost effectiveness; Production management; Production control; Health Care Costs -- United States; Cost Control -- methods -- United States; Health Care Reform -- economics -- United States; Quality of Health Care -- economics -- United States
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Stop rising healthcare costs using Toyota lean production methods. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: U.S. healthcare system problems; title: Respect for employees; title: 46 steps to improve cost and quality in the U.S. healthcare system; title: A capsule summary of a lean Toyota-like production system for healthcare; title: A short to-do list to nationally improve U.S. healthcare cost and quality.