This book arrives at a time of heightened concerns about patient safety in medical care and the overall responsibility assumed by health professionals. It begins by exploring experiences of error and harm in general, and it covers medical errors that can be attributed to system failures and errors in an individual’s reasoning, subsequent decision-making, and execution of tasks in medical care. It focuses on how to detect, correct, and avoid errors and their sometimes disastrous consequences. The book concludes with an analysis of the contributions and expectations of physicians in tort litigation and legal decision-making.
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Healthcare Management
Health & Safety
Medical & Healthcare Law
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Breaking down the OEE methodology from a historical perspective, this book explores the overall effectiveness of machines and unveils novel design improvement methods, including hazard analysis, rate of change of failure analysis, failure rate finite element analysis, and theory of inventive problem solving. It covers loss of effectiveness, new machinery, electrical maintenance issues, Weibull distribution, measurement techniques, and mechanical and electrical reliability. Highlighting mechanical and electrical opportunities throughout, the text includes a CD with more than 100 pages of appendices and additional resources.
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Business Information Systems
Manufacturing Engineering
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Focusing on Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma, and Human Systems Dynamics, this guide provides new tools for managing and sustaining process improvement in today’s complex non-linear environments and helps readers apply new, relevant theory to their own management practices. With more than 50 combined years of change management and process improvement consulting experience, the authors offer valuable practical insights for creating dynamic organizational change. They describe the impact of both linear and adaptive approaches to process improvement. Case studies reveal ways to avoid common mistakes and demonstrate how to integrate new processes with past efforts.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Quality Control & Reliability
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This volume proposes practices and paradigms to help readers integrate lean’s culture of continuous process improvement with wireless technology. It discusses the application of a wide range of wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, RFID, wireless sensor networks, real-time location systems, and global positioning systems. It addresses the modernization of infrastructure, the elimination of costly hardware and redundant equipment, the facilitation of e-Kanban, and the provision of real-time visibility. Drawing on success stories from American Apparel, the US Postal Service, Ford, Boeing, and Motorola, the text includes access to a Lean Wireless ROI Calculator that readers can use to calculate estimated savings in labor and excess capacity.
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Operating Systems
Digital & Wireless Communication
Lean Manufacturing
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This book is designed to teach academic administrators how to apply Lean business principles to the successful running of their institutions. It returns education to the consumers it was designed to serve,the students. Applying voice of the customer (VOC) concepts, it introduces educators to Lean tools, such as Value Stream Mapping. Reflecting concepts inherent in all Lean processes, it focuses on involving stakeholders and holding them accountable for the delivery of quality every step of the way, instilling pride and maximizing value and satisfaction for employees and customers alike.
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Lean Manufacturing
Higher Education Management
Leadership Strategy
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Covering healthcare from clinical to nutritional services, this book provides a collection of international case studies that demonstrate how lean thinking can be applied in the healthcare industry. Offering an international perspective, the text introduces key concepts of lean healthcare and presents real-life examples to illustrate the practical benefits—which include more efficient processes, increased patient satisfaction, and cost savings—that can result from a lean philosophy. The book features a number of expert contributors who offer practical tips. It also includes a foreword from eminent psychiatry professor Jeffrey Clotheir, MD.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Healthcare Management
Lean Manufacturing
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Presenting the developments in QRM since the publication of Rajan Suri’s landmark text, Quick Response Manufacturing , this book illustrates how QRM can not only reduce lead times but also improve quality, reduce operating costs, and enable companies to gain a substantial market share. It explains how factories in advanced nations can use QRM strategy to compete with manufacturers in low-wage countries and provides helpful pointers for QRM implementation, including accounting strategies, novel cost-justification approaches, and a stepwise process for implementation. It also includes a CD with time-saving tips to help you work through implementation issues—including simple calculation methods and tools to support the design of your QRM strategy.
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Business & Management
Lean Manufacturing
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The new edition of this Shingo Prize winning international bestseller shows you how to implement a Lean transformation that really works by developing a culture that builds success from the top down and the bottom up at the same time. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a lean transformation, this is the book you must read. Improved throughout, this new edition offers new guidance on Lean management in discrete manufacturing, office, and process manufacturing environments, provides specifics on engaging executives through Gemba walks and offers several new case studies as well as invaluable lessons that David Mann has learned since the first edition went to print.
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Lean Manufacturing
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Manufacturing Engineering
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Professional

Liquid industries, including reactive chemical manufacturing, petroleum and metal refining, and food and bio-pharma production, can make great use of the concepts of Lean. However, largely because they are naturally conservative and more financially stable than most, these industries do not generally make use of Lean manufacturing, and great case stories of successful Lean implementation are rare. This book is the first to offer details and examples of adapting Lean manufacturing to liquid industries. It is based on more than twenty years of industry experience from the legendary Raymond Floyd, one of the first to successfully practice Lean in the chemical industry.
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Lean Manufacturing
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
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Professional

This book provides the information healthcare providers need to prepare and successfully defend against inappropriate RAC audit recoveries. The author discusses the mechanics and machinations involved in the program, enhancing reader understanding by examining many of the underlying circumstances that can generate improper payments under the Medicare program. He explores issues in such a way that readers get the knowledge they need not only to deal with current issues, but also to deal with those that may arise in the future.
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Finance
Healthcare Management
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