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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Published in:	Global qualitative nursing research Vol. 5; p. 2333393618810658
Main Authors:	Nicosia, Francesca M., Park, Linda G., Gray, Caroline P., Yakir, Maayan J., Hung, Dorothy Y.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-01-2018 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC SAGE Publishing
Subjects:	Discharge Efficiency Ethnography Lean manufacturing Nurses Nursing administration Patient care planning Patient satisfaction Qualitative research Quality control Quality improvement Single-Method acute/critical semistructured qualitative quality improvement America focus groups North nursing ethnography health care research interviews
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