... 07 2020 07 08 2020 12 08 2020 13 08 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Total Quality Management Lean thinking Patient safety Organizational culture Continuous quality improvement As health-care...

... this into future improvements. Sharon Williams can be contacted at: sharon.j.williams@swansea.ac.uk 25 07 2017 03 11 2017 24 12 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Lean thinking Quality improvement Care pathways...

... Licensed re-use rights only Six sigma Health and safety Lean thinking Medicine PDSA This paper discusses the process used to standardize a workplace violence prevention program (WVPP) within a five-hospital healthcare system in Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Pursuant to The Joint...

... independent individuals and the extraction was followed by a two-step verification. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Process design Lean thinking Business process re-engineering/patient focussed care Continuous quality improvement Care...

... management Lean thinking Patient safety Incident reporting Lean management Job satisfaction Continuous quality improvement Patient flow Waiting time Additional effects related to the patient and the employee were evaluated to increase understanding in the overall impact of organization-based...

... Licensed re-use rights only Continuous quality improvement Employee involvement Critical success factors Quality improvement Organizational change Lean thinking Continuous improvement (CI) is a lean process improvement principle. In lean, the goal is to maximize client benefit...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Six Sigma Lean thinking Quality management Literature review Process efficiency Acute care settings During the last 15 years, a growing interest has been paid in the health care sector to methods used in the industrial sector to reorganize...

... Group Publishing Limited 2016 Lean thinking Quality management Continuous quality improvement Lean principles owe their origin to the Japanese car maker Toyota. They include tools that focus on eliminating waste from manufacturing processes and adding value for the customer. Some...

...@gest.unipd.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Lean thinking Hospital management Quality management Clinical risk management Clinical process Health lean management During the last decade, the healthcare sector has been characterized by two contradictions. First, medical care...

.... Post hoc comparisons were conducted to study pair-wise differences among factors where results were significant. Dr Susan Knapp can be contacted at: sknapp@kaplan.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Six Sigma Lean thinking Improvement models Organizational culture...

... Group Publishing Limited 2015 Process management Management National Health Service Partnership Lean thinking Capacity management Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) staff in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) began a process to implement the Choice...

... Analysis (FMEA) (Appendix 1), developing a continual monitoring plan for the future and sharing learning with primary care operational leaders. Dr Sohaib Aleem can be contacted at: sohaib.aleem@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Six sigma Primary care Lean...

...? What are the workshop’s actual costs? Five from eight top managers scored positive on the workshop’s cost/benefit ratio (question four, Table II). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Decision making Lean thinking Management Employee involvement Quality improvement...

... Limited 2013 Six Sigma Lean thinking Quality healthcare Quality improvement Process management As healthcare spending rises, so do concerns about healthcare quality. A major impetus toward recognizing the need to improve healthcare quality and patient safety occurred when...

... the period of five months. Disruption events were classified according to the hospital's requirements and the findings were reviewed by the surgical teams. Lean thinking approaches were used to achieve the purpose of this study. Findings Preventable disruption caused an increase in surgical time...

... programmes and evidence of best practice: My role within the SHA, it's about learning the lessons and sharing best practice, and being able to facilitate networking (Regional lead for clinical standards). Lean thinking Productive ward Efficiency Quality improvement Diffusion of innovation...

... programme. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Care pathways Efficiency Lean thinking Management Organizational change Process management Sweden Health services Accessibility is considered by many experts to be an important service quality dimension and at the same time...