Lean Thinking in Healthcare

de Vries, J., & Huijsman, L. G. (2010). Lean Thinking in Healthcare: A Realistic Review of the Literature. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19(5), 376-382.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

Volume

19

Issue

5

Pages

376-382

DOI

10.1136/qshc.2009.038638 did not resolve

DOI registrant

BMJ

Link

https://doi.org/10.1136/qshc.2009.038638

Cited from

operations_research

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

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Primes

• Pull Flow
  • Just-in-time inventory logic ported into just-in-time teaching, and the Toyota surgical-tray system is the medical kanban.

    This sourceReviews the transfer of Toyota just-in-time / kanban-pull logic into healthcare operations (including surgical-supply and instrument provisioning), the medical analogue of demand-pulled replenishment.

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