Unsustainable increases in health care costs mandate efforts at cost reduction. Such efforts necessitate enhanced productivity, especially given the specter of an aging population afflicted by a burgeoning chronic disease burden. Productivity is less a choice than an imperative forced upon hospitals and health systems as they attempt to address the competing requirements of diminished resources...

Background: Pattani Hospital in southern Thailand has 540 beds and a network of 22 family clinical practice community locations 13 primary-care hospitals. We care for patients soldiers who have wounds from guns bombs varying wound size. The central sterilization services department (CSSD) prepares dressing sets with 1 size procedures. Objectives: sought to improve the sizing within network, red...

Measurement of the service quality is very important, especially to improve and get loyal customers in a private hospital using lean approach. This research aims determine effect approach based on variables including overproduction, waiting time, transportation, excess processing, inventory, motion satisfaction defects. study used quantitative method with cross-sectional design. The population ...

BACKGROUND There is growing interest in applying lean thinking in healthcare, yet, there is still limited knowledge of how and why lean interventions succeed (or fail). To address this gap, this in-depth case study examines a lean-inspired intervention in a Swedish pediatric Accident and Emergency department. METHODS We used a mixed methods explanatory single case study design. Hospital perfo...

Constructing phase diagram and its subsequent quality lines for lean gas condensate reservoirs is always crucial and challenging topic in reservoir fluid studies. Due to small amounts of liquid drop-outs in lean gas condensates at reservoir conditions, full experimental tracking of phase diagram and its relevant quality lines is almost impossible for lean gas condensates.On the other hand, ...