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 …