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Laboratories --- Quality Control --- Clinical Laboratory Techniques --- Time Factors --- Efficiency, Organizational --- organization and administration

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Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term bottom line. This updated edition of a Shingo Research Award recipient begins with an overview of Lean methods. It explains how Lean practices can help reduce various frustrations for caregivers, prevent delays and harm for patients, and improve the long-term health of your organization. The second edition of this book presented new material on identifying waste, A3 problem solving, engaging employees in continuous improvement, and strategy deployment. This third edition adds new sections on structured Lean problem solving methods (including Toyota Kata), Lean Design, and other topics. Additional examples, case studies, and explanations are also included throughout the book. Mark Graban is also the co-author, with Joe Swartz, of the book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Frontline Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements, which is also a Shingo Research Award recipient. Mark and Joe also wrote The Executive’s Guide to Healthcare Kaizen -- Provided by the publisher

Efficiency, Organizational. --- Hospital Administration --- Patient Safety. --- Quality Improvement. --- Total Quality Management --- Economics. --- Methods. --- Hospitals --- Hospital care --- Patients --- Just-in-time systems --- Total quality management --- Efficiency, Organizational --- Patient Safety --- Quality Improvement --- Administration --- Quality control --- Cost effectiveness --- Safety measures --- methods --- economics

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Using the success of other industries as a model, this book promotes methodologies, indicators, and ideas that health care organizations can use to streamline their practices and maintain strong profit margins. Based on the core principles embodied in lean logistics-the systematic process of removing waste and inefficiency throughout the purchasing, supply, distribution, and business operations chain-Streamlining Health Care Operations shows health care leaders how to fundamentally restructure their organizations and effectively balance costs, quality, and patient access to excellent care.

Business logistics. --- Delivery of Health Care --- Efficiency, Organizational --- Health services administration. --- Quality of Health Care --- economics --- organization & administration --- standards

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Technology Assessment, Biomedical --- Technology Assessment, Biomedical --- Technology Assessment, Biomedical --- Efficiency, Organizational --- Efficiency, Organizational --- Efficiency, Organizational --- Quality improvement --- Quality improvement --- Quality improvement --- Methods --- Methods --- Methods --- Analytical Approach --- Analytical Approach --- Analytical Approach --- W 84 Health services. Quality of health care (General) --- W 84 Health services. Quality of health care (General) --- W 84 Health services. Quality of health care (General)