Kaizen: A Method of Process Improvement in the Emergency Department
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Kaizen: a method of process improvement in the emergency department.
INTRODUCTION Recent position statements from health care organizations have placed a strong emphasis on continuous quality improvement (CQI). CQI finds many of its roots in kaizen, which emphasizes small, low-cost, low-risk improvements. Based on the successful Kaizen Programs at organizations such as Toyota, the authors thought the emergency department (ED) would be an ideal environment to ben...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1069-6563
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00580.x