Hospitalists: Lean leaders for hospitals
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Hospitalists: lean leaders for hospitals.
Unsustainable increases in health care costs mandate efforts at cost reduction. Such efforts necessitate enhanced productivity, especially given the specter of an aging population afflicted by a burgeoning chronic disease burden. Productivity is less a choice than an imperative forced upon hospitals and health systems as they attempt to address the competing requirements of diminished resources...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hospital Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1553-5592
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.813