Lean healthcare: Rhetoric, ritual and resistance

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1332-1340

  Waring, Justin J ^a   Bishop, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lean healthcare; Management; Organisation; Service re configuration; UK

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; STANDARDIZATION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; RITUAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; STATE MEDICINE; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77956340999     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.028     Document Type: Article

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