Application of lean principles to improve congestive heart failure care

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2010 Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Shinyi ^a   Liu, Pai ^a   Belson, David ^a  

^a Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Health care; Lean; Quality improvement; Safety net hospital

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS;

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURES; HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LEAN; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY NETS;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 84901044666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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