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Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department - Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,487
Discovery Miles 54 870
Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department - Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation...

Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department - Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation (Hardcover)

Joyce Kerpchar, Charles Protzman, George Mayzell

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This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcare that has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation.Emergency departments have become notorious for long wait times and questionable quality of care. By adopting Lean manufacturing concepts, hospitals can turn the emergency department into a valuable service for the hospital and the community it serves.Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department: Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation supplies a functional understanding of Lean emergency department processes and quality improvement techniques. It is ideal for healthcare executives, leaders, process improvement team members, and inquisitive frontline workers who want to implement and leverage Lean.Supplying detailed descriptions of Lean tools and methodologies, the book identifies powerful Lean solutions specific to the needs of the emergency department. The first section provides an overview of Lean concepts, tools, methodologies, and applications.The second section focuses on the application of Lean in the emergency department within the confines of the hospital or clinic. Presenting numerous examples, stories, case studies, and lessons learned, it examines the normal operation of each area in emergency departments and highlights the areas where typical problems occur.Next, the book walks readers through various Lean initiatives and demonstrates how Lean tools and concepts have been used to achieve lasting improvements to processes and quality of care. It also supplies actionable blueprints that readers can duplicate or modify for use in their own institutions. Illustrating leadership's role i

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Imprint: Crc Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2017
First published: 2015
Authors: Joyce Kerpchar • Charles Protzman • George Mayzell
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-43164-5
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Public ownership / nationalization
Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN: 1-138-43164-8
Barcode: 9781138431645

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