Improvement of emergency department patient flow using lean thinking

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  International Journal for Quality in Health Care

• Publication date

  2018-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/intqhc/mzy017PMID 29447352
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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