Strengthening Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality With Lean Practices

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The article explains how Lean practices can improve patient safety and healthcare quality by reducing waste, standardizing routine work, and simplifying workflows. It shows how healthcare organizations can use Lean methods to identify risks in patient identification, medication administration, testing, discharge, and handoffs. It also emphasizes the value of frontline employee involvement in spotting problems and proposing improvements. Finally, it argues that learning from errors and near misses helps healthcare teams build more reliable processes and prevent repeat issues.

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