English Abstract: Lean thinking in healthcare: hospital procurement logistics and drug distribution – Taking into … drugs and medical and diagnostics devices in a public hospital located in Southern Italy. The paper proposes a tool for …

a case study methodology, we investigate the implementation of Lean at Odense University Hospital (Denmark) and rely on … example through reduction in waiting times, higher process cycle efficiency when patients were treated at the hospital, and … pressure from the government under increasing expectations from patients, openness of the hospital’s top management toward …