Process improvement in healthcare: Overall resource efficiency

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1095-1106

  De Mast, Jeroen ^a   Kemper, Benjamin ^a   Does, Ronald J M M ^a   Mandjes, Michel ^a   Van Der Bijl, Yohan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DEVENTER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

capacity analysis; lean six sigma; line balancing; overall resource efficiency; resource management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY ANALYSIS; LEAN SIX SIGMA; LINE BALANCING; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 80052330174     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.1198     Document Type: Article

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