Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: A critical review of the research literature on Six Sigma, Lean and StuderGroup's Hardwiring Excellence in the United States: the need to demonstrate and communicate the effectiveness of transformation strategies in healthcare | Implementation Science BioMed Central Open Access Systematic Review A critical review of the research literature on Six Sigma Lean and StuderGroup s Hardwiring Excellence in the United States the need to demonstrate and communicate the effectiveness of transformation strategies in healthcare Joshua R Vest and Larry D Gamm Address Department of Health Policy and Management School of Rural Public Health Texas A M Health Science Center College Station Texas USA Email Joshua R Vest - jrvest@ Larry D Gamm - gamm@ Corresponding author Published I July 2009 Received 14 January 2009 Implementation Science 2009 4 35 doi 1748-5908-4-35 Accepted 1 July 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 35 2009 Vest and Gamm licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background . healthcare organizations are confronted with numerous and varied transformational strategies promising improvements along all dimensions of quality and performance. This article examines the peer-reviewed literature from the . for evidence of effectiveness among three current popular transformational strategies Six Sigma Lean Toyota Production System and Studer s Hardwiring Excellence. Methods The English language health healthcare management and organizational science literature up to December 2007 indexed in Medline Web of Science ABI Inform Cochrane Library CINAHL and ERIC was reviewed for studies on the aforementioned transformation strategies in healthcare settings. Articles were included if they appeared in a peer-reviewed journal described a specific intervention were not classified as a pilot study provided quantitative data and were not review articles. Nine .
