The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of sustainable Lean patient value in relation to a long-term health … healthcare is overly focused on healthcare providers rather than patients leading to unmet value across the patient Value Stream …. To conceptualise the findings and present the constructs and their relationships, a Lean patient healthcare framework is …

Research has not yet adequately explored the potential interplay between the physician's gender and the patient … gender matters to the physician-patient interaction in the service setting. It discusses the patient's responses to … one of the factors that influence the physician-patient interaction and patients' perception of the doctor's competence …

staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We use the variation of patient admissions over time as a proxy … affect patient outcomes. -- Hospital staffing ; inpatient outcomes …