...Andrea Chiarini Purpose – This paper deals with the issue of patient transportation inside large public hospitals and its costs. This cost is often related to transportation within departments, wards and outpatient clinics. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate through a qualitative case study...

... studies or a quantitative inquiry. Practical implications The paper suggests an interesting and practical way to reduce risks for health and safety and costs inside pharmacy departments. Originality/value Lean Six Sigma and its tools have been used for the first time for reducing health and safety...

... model the loss to society in health care. It also establishes a relationship between cost and variability. Therefore, it can be integrated with the performance and parameters of the design of medical applications. Signal‐to‐noise ratios give a sense of how close is the performance to the ideal...

...Unaiza Sagheer; Amfried A. Kielmann; Zubia Mumtaz; Saqib Shahab The study sought to determine the direct and indirect costs of hospitalization incurred by the provider and consumer in a public funded tertiary care hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. The cost per hospital bed per day in both medical...

...Martin Shain Workplaces vary enormously in the amount of harmful stress they produce, even within specific economic sectors. Stress of certain kinds and at certain levels tend to produce health harms and costs that are borne not only by individual employees and employers but also by families...