Managing a variable acute patient flow - Categorising the strategies

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 113-127

  Olsson, Olle ^a   Aronsson, Håkan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agile; Health care; Lean; Patient flow; Sweden; Variation paper type

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954198230     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-06-2014-0203     Document Type: Article

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