Nurses' Perspectives on Lean Redesigns to Patient Flow and Inpatient Discharge Process Efficiency

• Main Authors: Francesca M. Nicosia (Author), Linda G. Park (Author), Caroline P. Gray (Author), Maayan J. Yakir (Author), Dorothy Y. Hung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

As hospitals around the world increasingly face pressure to improve efficiency, "Lean" process improvement has become a popular approach to improving patient flow. In this article, we examine nurses' perspectives on the implementation of Lean redesigns to the inpatient discharge proce...