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Quality Management Journal. 25:158-170
Reducing hospital readmission rates has been increasingly important as a measure of hospital quality and safety performance. While in recent years hospitals have emphasized the importance of organi...
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International Journal of Production Economics. 234:108047
This study identifies prevalent organizational culture profiles in U.S. hospitals based on the Competing Value Framework and examines the relationship between these cultures and quality-related performance. Cross-sectional survey data from 215 U.S. h
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Quality Management Journal. 22:37-53
The purpose of this study is to clarify the impact of lean on patient safety outcomes in hospitals. This paper develops a path model for improving patient safety that includes lean, Six Sigma, goal specificity, and responsiveness capabilities...
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Quality Management Journal. 21:42-58
Researchers examine the relationship of quality management to knowledge management and the effect on patient safety.
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Health care management review. 43(3)
Background Despite the increasing interest for Lean and Six Sigma implementations in hospitals, there has been little empirical evidence that goes beyond descriptive case studies to address the current status and the effectiveness of the implementati
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American Journal of Business. 27:133-153
PurposeRapidly rising healthcare costs, partially due to preventable medical errors, have led hospitals to redouble their process improvement (PI) efforts. The purpose of this paper is to examine how PI initiatives mediate the effect of medical error
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Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018:17734
Hospitals are often tasked with improving patient care while simultaneously increasing operating-efficiency. While efficiency may be gained by maintaining higher patient volume per nurse (higher wo...
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Quality Management Journal. 17:7-26
The relationships among organizational culture, knowledge management, and patient safety performance in the healthcare industry are investigated. A test model for patient safety performance is developed using data from existing literature and a surve
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Health Care Management Review. 34:129-140
Background The health care industry has become one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy and provides the greatest job growth of any industry. With such growth, effective leadership, knowledge management, and quality programs can ameliorate pati
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Journal of Operations Management. 27:390-404
The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of a patient safety chain for hospitals. Drawing on high reliability organization theory, multifactor leadership theory and total quality management literature, we develop and test a model for