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Lean healthcare: improving surgical process indicators through prioritization projects
Sales, Marc; Castro, Rodolfo de; Ochoa de Echagüen … - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 16 (2023) 1, pp. 102-114
,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 … resource planning, optimizing the use of operating rooms and professionals' time and generating the best surgery combinations …
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An agile standardized work procedure for cleaning the operating room
Claudio, David; Cosgriff, Virginia; Nino, Valentina; … - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 701-717
Northwestern hospital. Design/methodology/approach: Data collection consisted of observation and interviews of the aides … be divided into two stages: cleaning the room and setting up for the next surgery. The research team met with the staff …
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Improving patient access in oncology clinics using simulation
Keshtzari, Maryam; Norman, Bryan A. - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 455-469
Purpose: Providing timely access is an important measure of patient satisfaction in specialty care clinics such as cancer centers. Excessive patient wait time to see an oncologist is very critical for cancer patients as they often benefit from starting the treatment process as soon as possible....
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Integration of simulation and DEA to determine the most efficient patient appointment scheduling model for a specific healthcare setting
Aslani, Nazanin; Zhang, Jun - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 7 (2014) 4, pp. 785-815
Purpose: This study is to develop a systematic approach for determining the most efficient patient appointment scheduling (PAS) model for a specific healthcare setting with its multiple appointments requests characteristics in order to increase patients' accessibility and resource utilization,...
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Optimal scheduling of logistical support for medical resources order and shipment in community health service centers
Liu, Ming; Zhang, Liping; Zhang, Zhe - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 8 (2015) 5, pp. 1362-1379
Purpose: Medical resources scheduling affects the medical institution’s operation cost, customer satisfaction and medical service quality. Therefore, a lean arrangement of medical resources order and shipment is quite necessary and important. In this paper, we propose two optimal models for...
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The internal and external customer focused process improvement and the performance analysis studies in healthcare systems
Tekin, Piril; Erol, Rizvan - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 10 (2017) 3, pp. 407-430
present in the hospital are radiology, periodontology, surgery, treatment, orthodontics and prosthesis. These clinics run … hospital undergoing a treatment process have been reviewed and examined. The problems encountered as result of the observations … consequence of such study that has been addressed, it is established that the efficiency of the internal customers of the hospital …
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Evaluation of industrial engineering students' competencies for process improvement in hospitals
Mazur, Lukasz M.; Chen, Shi-Jie - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 3 (2010) 3, pp. 603-628
risks of patient safety and increased wastes in hospital settings. The purpose of this research was two-fold: 1) to identify … on multidisciplinary teams in hospital; 2) to identify competencies needed by IEs for effective process improvement in … hospital using PDSA based-tools. Exploratory mixed method design approach with survey study, unstructured interviews, and focus …
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Ontology modeling for generation of clinical pathways
Tehrani, Jasmine; Liu, Kecheng; Michell, Vaughan - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 5 (2012) 2, pp. 442-456
Purpose: Increasing costs of health care, fuelled by demand for high quality, cost-effective healthcare has drove hospitals to streamline their patient care delivery systems. One such systematic approach is the adaptation of Clinical Pathways (CP) as a tool to increase the quality of healthcare...
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Optimal manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities of systems with reverse logistics and deterministic uniform demand
Benedito, Ernest; Corominas, Albert - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 3 (2010) 1, pp. 33-53
Using reverse logistics in production systems can help to reduce costs. However, it can also mean introducing a source of uncertainty in the system behavior. In this study we present a method for calculating the optimal manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities of a system with reverse...
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Theory of constraints case study in the make to order environment
Orue, Aitor; Lizarralde, Aitor; Amorrotu, Itxaso; … - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 14 (2021) 1, pp. 72-85
Purpose: The theory of constraints (TOC) drum-buffer-rope methodology is appropriate when managing a production plant in complex environments, such as make-to-order (MTO) scenarios. However, some difficulties have been detected in implementing this methodology in such changing environments. This...
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