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Making cars and making health care: a critical review.
- Source :
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The Medical journal of Australia [Med J Aust] 2009 Jul 06; Vol. 191 (1), pp. 28-9. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- The uncritical adoption of production-line manufacturing practices (such as "lean thinking") into work design processes in hospitals creates a fundamental tension between the production of health care and protection of the patient. There is scant evidence that re-engineering health care services in line with industrial models increases their efficiency. Indeed, reducing the richness of health care practice to impoverished snippets of work may add to the problems of hospital misadventure and inefficiency rather than solve them.
- Subjects :
- Australia
Humans
Medical Errors prevention & control
Models, Organizational
Organizational Innovation
Quality Assurance, Health Care organization & administration
Critical Pathways organization & administration
Decision Making, Organizational
Efficiency, Organizational
Hospital Administration standards
Total Quality Management methods
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0025-729X
- Volume :
- 191
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Medical journal of Australia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19580533
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02670.x