Healthcare Quality: Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Lean
Lessons Learned from a Meta-Analysis of Rapid Improvement Events, 2013–2017” published in the Journal of Healthcare Management (Menachemi, Tinsley, Johnston, & Schulhof, 2020) explores the outcomes of a large-scale implementation of Lean in a healthcare system encompassing 16 hospitals, a health plan, and dozens of outpatient clinics. The article contends that, over a 5-year period, 45% of the 1,144 rapid improvement events (RIEs).
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