Prioritizing lean management practices in public and private hospitals
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to prioritize 21 healthcare wastes in public and private hospitals of United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Design/methodology/approach
Seven healthcare wastes linked with lean management are further decomposed in to sub-criteria and to deal with this complexity of multi criteria decision-making process, analytical hierarchical process (AHP) method is used in this research.
Findings
AHP framework for this study resulted in a ranking of 21 healthcare wastes in public and private hospitals of UAE. It has been found that management in private healthcare systems of UAE is putting more emphasis on the inventory waste. On the other hand, over processing waste has got highest weight in public hospitals of UAE.
Research limitations/implications
The future directions of this research would be to apply a lean set of tools for the value stream optimization of the prioritized key improvement areas.
Practical implications
This is a contribution to the continuing research into lean management, giving practitioners and designers a practical way for measuring and implementing lean practices across health organizations.
Originality/value
The contribution of this research, through successive stages of data collection, measurement analysis and refinement, is a set of reliable and valid framework that can be subsequently used in conceptualization, prioritization of the waste reduction strategies in healthcare management.
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Citation
Hussain, M. and Malik, M. (2016), "Prioritizing lean management practices in public and private hospitals", Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 30 No. 3, pp. 457-474. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-08-2014-0135
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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