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Quality Improvement in Hospitals
By Lukasz Mazur, University of North Carolina: Along with my colleagues, we have recently published an article focused on improvement behaviors: Mazur, L.M., McCreery, J., and Chen, S-J. Quality...
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Implementation Science
By Lukasz Mazur, PhD Are you responsible for creating value for your healthcare organization? Or are you a researcher interested in ‘Lean’ or ‘High Reliability Organizations (HROs)’? If the answer is...
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Cross-coverage in clinical setting: Potential solution for performance...
In healthcare, providing care to patients of other physician/colleague in their interim is very common. Other terms used are sign-off or hand-off, however, cross-coverage happens when the regular...
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What is Lean Healthcare?
By: Lukasz Mazur, PhD and Marianne Jackson, MD: I have recently participated on a conference call with Lean Healthcare experts around the country during which it was debated if we really have a...
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Human Factors in Hospital Facility Design
By Prithima Mosaly: Human factors is defined as the study of human beings and their interaction with products, environments, and equipment in performing tasks and activities. Human factors in...
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Leadership Actions and Style
By Lukasz Mazur, UNC School of Medicine. Implementing change in healthcare is usually more than just a technical challenge; it is also a change management challenge. Thus, it requires strong...
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What impact could a lean continuous improvement mindset have on hospital safety?
By Chinweike I. Eseonu, Oregon State University – A reader sent us this graphic with statistics on hospital safety. We wonder what impact a top-down continuous improvement culture might have on some of...
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Implementation climate: What is it?
By Lukasz Mazur, University of North Carolina. Climate, as an abstract construct, seems to measure organizational members’ shared perceptions of policies, practices, and procedures that orient...
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Change and the challenge of healthcare process improvement
By Bill Schell | Montana State University – Industrial and Management Systems Engineering — In a recent post, Chinweike asks why people are so resistant to change, using an example of Electronic...
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‘Engineering’ Patient Safety
By Lukasz Mazur: Most continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs in healthcare industry are nowadays structured to transform leaders into effective change agents, design efficient, effective, and...
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