The aim of this paper is to determine the critical factors in successful implementation of a lean healthcare system in a hospital. Despite the recent developments in lean hospitals, there is a long route to traverse in order to get close to the maturity stage of the leanness. We propose an approach in which the most important leanness criteria are determined and the leanness of a given hospital...

BACKGROUND Health care has experimented with many different quality improvement (QI) approaches with greater variation in name than content. This has been dubbed pseudoinnovation. However, it could also be that the subtleties and differences are not clearly understood. To explore this further, the purpose of this study was to explore how hospital managers perceive lean in the context of QI. M...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: health care organizations have begun applying six sigma methods into their operations. on the other hand, the difficulty of using indicators to compare health care providers in a meaningful way has led to an increased focus on using information about “adverse events”- that is , events that should not happen i...

Hospital efficiency relates to organizational factors and leadership style. This study investigated several factors, as one interdependent construct, with the potential to influence hospital performance in terms of quality-of-care. National database and survey information on modern management, lean management, organizational traits and leadership was compared. A positive correlation was found b...

Over the past years, raising costs of health care in most countries cause to attract more attention to different aspects in the field. One of the best improvement methodologies known in literature is based on lean principles. The main aim of this methodology is to create values in the system by eliminating losses and creating continuous efforts toward improvement. Therefore, by measuring the pe...

The need to improve the quality of health services in hospitals by eliminating waste order achieve an efficient service process through a Lean Management approach. Methods using descriptive qualitative analysis where data is compiled, analyzed and then explained collection, problem solving, planning improvement ideas providing design proposals. application this lean hospital reduces time for Co...

the aim of this paper is to determine the use of lean management components in the libraries of medical sciences universities in the north provinces of iran. the methodology is a cross-sectional survey in which the viewpoints of 105 managers and employees in different units of libraries of medical sciences universities are evaluated in mazandaran, golestan, and gilan to determine the applicatio...

Lean Management in Healthcare Institution shows several benefit based on evidence both clinically and financially. Some hospital Indonesia already implemented lean management. In order to achieve sustainability of implementation, the have ready level adopted it. This study aimed evaluate healthcare readiness among staff private hospital. Thi sstudy used a quantitative design with population all...

Instalasi Gawat Darurat (IGD) adalah unit di rumah sakit yang berfungsi sebagai pintu masuk pasien dengan keadaan darurat. Pasien dirawat ruang gawat darurat tentunya membutuhkan pertolongan cepat dan tepat, sehingga perlu adanya standar dalam memberikan pelayanan Unit terlalu padat tingkat hunian tinggi dapat menyebabkan menumpuk area Permasalahan sering dihadapi proses menunggu IGD lama, sepe...