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      Lean in healthcare: A comprehensive review.

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          Lean seems to be the next revolution for a better, improved, value-based healhcare. In the last 15 years Lean has been increasingly adapted and adopted in healthcare. Accordingly, Lean healthcare has been developing into a major strand of research since the early 2000s. The aim of this work is to present a comprehensive overview of the main issues highlighted by research on implementation of Lean in a complex contest such as the healthcare one.

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          Journal
          Health Policy
          Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
          Elsevier BV
          1872-6054
          0168-8510
          Sep 2015
          : 119
          : 9
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Management and Business Administration, University "G. d'Annunzio", Via Pindaro, 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy. Electronic address: adandreamatteo@gmail.com.
          [2 ] Department of Management and Business Administration, University "G. d'Annunzio", Via Pindaro, 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy. Electronic address: lianni@unich.it.
          [3 ] Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, CeRGAS Public Management & Policy SDA - Bocconi University, Via Roentgen, 1, 20136 Milan, Italy. Electronic address: federico.lega@unibocconi.it.
          [4 ] Department of Management and Business Administration, University "G. d'Annunzio", Via Pindaro, 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy. Electronic address: msargiacomo@unich.it.
          Article
          S0168-8510(15)00036-6
          10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.02.002
          25737260
          9689a5b2-1eab-4548-a287-da0c17dcbf70
          History

          Continuous quality improvement,Healthcare,Lean,Lean Six Sigma,Lean thinking,Operational excellence,Review

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