A critical look at Lean Thinking in healthcare.

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With healthcare, Lean Thinking encounters a world, not devoid of value, but awash with sophisticated and mutually unconnected concepts of value.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Qual Saf Health Care

Title: Quality & safety in health care

Publisher: BMJ

ISSN (Electronic): 1475-3901

ISSN (Print): 1475-3898

Publication date (Electronic): Oct 2008

Volume: 17

Issue: 5

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[1 ] School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK. terry.young@brunel.ac.uk

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Publisher Item ID: 17/5/382

DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2006.020131

PubMed ID: 18842980

SO-VID: 864fc276-848c-467f-8de8-3f34f33df350

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