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Lean hospitals : improving quality, patient safety, and employee satisfaction
- Title
- Lean hospitals : improving quality, patient safety, and employee satisfaction / Mark Graban ; foreword by J. Michael Rona.
- Author
- Graban, Mark.
- Publication
- Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA971 .G64 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 252 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Hospital Administration > economics
- Efficiency, Organizational
- Total Quality Management > methods
- Patients > United States > Safety measures
- Hospitals > United States > Administration
- Total Quality Management > organization & administration
- Hospital Administration > methods
- Hospital care > United States > Cost effectiveness
- Hospital care > United States > Quality control
- Note
- "A Productivity Press book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The case for lean hospitals -- Overview of lean for hospitals -- Value and waste -- Observing the process and value streams -- Standardized work as a foundation of lean -- Lean methods : visual management, 5S, and Kanban -- Proactive root cause problem solving -- Preventing errors -- Improving flow -- Engaging and leading employees -- Getting started with lean -- A vision for a lean hospital.
- ISBN
- 9781420083804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1420083805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008018811
- OCLC
- ocn192080497
- 192080497
- SCSB-5424724
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries