How to increase value and reduce waste in research: initial experiences of applying Lean thinking and visual management in research leadership [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Waste in research has been well documented, but initiatives to reduce it are scarce. Here, we share our initial experiences of implementing Lean thinking and visual management into hospital research units in the Region of Southern Denmark.
Annmarie Touborg Lassen +17 more
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Moving-on — Beyond Lean Thinking [PDF]
Lean Construction Journal, 2004 Lean Thinking is currently often positioned as the underlying theory of lean production among practitioners and academics, although its originators, Womack and Jones, seem not to have presented it as a theory. This paper endeavours to analyze whether Lean Thinking can be viewed as a theory of lean production.
Koskela, Lauri
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Lean thinking in health and nursing: an integrative literature review [PDF]
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2016 Objectives: to demonstrate the scientific knowledge developed on lean thinking in health, highlighting the impact and contributions in health care and nursing.
Aline Lima Pestana Magalhães +3 more
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Applying the Toyota production system to decrease the time required to transport patients undergoing surgery from the general ward to the operating room and reviewing the essence of lean thinking [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 BackgroundSending a patient to the operating room is the first step in surgery. Delayed patient transport causes the patient to go hungry for a longer time, aggravating the patient’s physical discomfort and psychological stress.
Chien-Chung Lin +4 more
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Using lean thinking to improve hypertension in a community health centre: a quality improvement report [PDF]
BMJ Open Quality, 2019 Background Achieving better care at lower cost in the US healthcare safety net will require federally qualified health centres (FQHC) to implement new models of team-based population healthcare.
Patrick Lee +12 more
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Lean thinking to improve emergency department throughput at AORN Cardarelli hospital [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Throughout the world, emergency departments (ED) are characterized by overcrowding and excessive waiting times. Furthermore, the related delays significantly increase patient mortality and make inefficient use of resources to the detriment of ...
Giovanni Improta +7 more
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How to Use Lean Thinking for the Optimization of Clinical Pathways: A Systematic Review and a Proposed Framework to Analyze Pathways on a System Level [PDF]
Healthcare, 2023 Paul Bastiaan van der Nat +2 more
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Improving construction design : The lean thinking paradigm [PDF]
, 1999 A study has been conducted into improving construction design through the application of the lean thinking paradigm. Its objective was to identify the issues relating to design efficiency and how a lean thinking approach might address these issues ...
Morris, Jonathan
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The Need For Lean Thinking In The Omani Health Care Sector [PDF]
Oman Medical Journal, 2014 Yahya Al Farsi +3 more
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Lean thinking : removing waste and adding value in the public sector - a case study of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, UK [PDF]
, 2009 The idea of lean has provided enormous benefits since its emergence especially in manufacturing where it originated. Through adding value, removing waste and continuous improvement, private organisations have improved their process flow as well as ...
Abubakar Bello, Munir
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