,000 surgical patients each year at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.The purpose of this article is to … projects have been implemented successfully in a hospital with high surgical complexity and indicate how health care … action. This is designed to adapt to any level of complexity within the hospital process. The set of improvement projects has …

patients use their time very efficiently and that the process flows continuously. By having examined a sample healthcare system … working staff and patients have been carried out. Within the scope of the study, the operation of 7 Departments in a dental … hospital undergoing a treatment process have been reviewed and examined. The problems encountered as result of the observations …

purpose, 5 healthcare processes from the surgical ward of a UK hospital are analysed through FMEAs, Root Cause Analysis and … study also uses 5 industrial examples (rail, marine, chemicals, construction, and animal hospital) to show how this is …

) researchers. Having timevarying arrivals and heterogeneous patients that need to be treated in consecutive processing steps by … (Jayaprakash et al., 2009) and may cause a myriad of operational problems like patients being treated in hallways, excessive length … of stay (LOS) and wait times, patients leaving without treatment or even medical errors and increased mortality …

Purpose: Process improvement in service industries, like the registration process in a hospital, can be achieved with … satisfaction in a hospital in Montana. The clinics involved in the study included pediatrics (P), internal medicine (IM), and … the dissatisfaction. Findings: The information obtained from the lean tools showed that patients questioned the need for …