Improving healthcare operations: The application of lean, agile and leagility in care pathway design

Improving Healthcare Operations: The Application of Lean, Agile and Leagility in Care Pathway Design

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-136

  Williams, Sharon J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46913-3     Document Type: Book

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