Nurses’ Perspectives on Lean Redesigns to Patient Flow and Inpatient Discharge Process Efficiency

As hospitals around the world increasingly face pressure to improve efficiency, “Lean” process improvement has become a popular approach to improving patient flow. In this article, we examine nurses’ perspectives on the implementation of Lean redesigns to the inpatient discharge process. We found th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Francesca M. Nicosia, Linda G. Park, Caroline P. Gray, Maayan J. Yakir, Dorothy Y. Hung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-11-01
Series:Global Qualitative Nursing Research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2333393618810658