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Lean Healthcare

Lean is a management philosophy that emerged from the Toyota Production System, focused on maximizing patient value while minimizing waste. Applied to healthcare, Lean uses systematic methods to identify and eliminate non-value-added activities, reduce wait times, and improve the quality of patient care.

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Lean Management Principles Applied to Healthcare Operations
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / healthcare-management
  • Ohno, T. (1988). Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Productivity Press. · URL
  • Womack, J. P., Jones, D. T., & Roos, D. (1990). The Machine that Changed the World. Rawson Associates. · ISBN 9780915299379
  • Kim, C. S., Spahlinger, D. A., Kin, J. M., & Billi, J. E. (2009). Lean health care: What can hospitals learn from a world-class automaker? Journal of Hospital Medicine, 4(3), 191–199. · URL
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Related methods

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Same method familyBalanced Scorecard in Healthcaremachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDEA Hospital Efficiencymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyHospital Readmission Prediction Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPatient Flow Simulationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySix Sigma in Healthcaremachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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