the dissertation. The inquiry is brought to bear on a purpose-built psychiatric hospital in Slagelse, Denmark, opened in …, the new hospital in Slagelse is considered the vanguard of contemporary hospital design, representing the future of … psychiatric inpatient facilities. As such, the Slagelse Hospital can be understood as a paradigmatic case for considering the …

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 …

for cost effectiveness, a Danish hospital implemented the balanced scorecard to drive its strategy and cascade its …