...Emanuela Leal Codognotto; Fabiane Letícia Lizarelli; Moacir Godinho Filho; Gilberto Miller Devós Ganga Purpose Lean Healthcare ( LH ) aims to increase patient value, enhance quality and reduce waste across processes. However, in hospital settings, the assimilation of LH into routine practice...

...Dina Mohamed Hafez; Adel Zaki; Mohamed Abd El-Latif; Iman El Sayed Purpose This study aims to assess the effect of the implementation of the Six Sigma approach to improve the quality of post-operative pain management in patients attending Alexandria University Student Hospital. Design...

... management, the lean management creates a continuous improvement culture for the frontline workers to reduce waste and remove unjustified variance to enhance the value of care supplied to patients in the hospitals (Shakoor et al., 2019 ; Rosso and Saurin, 2018). For example, a study conducted...

...John C.A.M. van Beers; Desirée H. van Dun; Celeste P.M. Wilderom Purpose Lean implementations in hospitals tend to be lengthy or lack the desired results. In addressing the question, how can lean be implemented effectively in a hospital-wide setting, this paper aims to examine two opposing...

...Haleh Mousavi Isfahani; Sogand Tourani; Hesam Seyedin The inclusion criteria for the study were interventional studies reporting quantitative results, articles published in English and Persian languages, studies that were conducted in hospital setting and articles published from January 2000...

..., and to develop “best practices” to prevent them. Design/methodology/approach This paper focuses on three specific never events: patient falls, pressure ulcers, and hospital acquired pneumonia. A model is suggested to identify “gold standard best practice” protocols to be used to prevent these events...