Federico Lega

TL;DR: Even though Lean results appear to be promising, findings so far do not allow to draw a final word on its positive impacts or challenges when introduced in the healthcare sector.

TL;DR: Through the analysis of 37 studies, it is found that the performance of health care systems and organizations seems to be correlated with management practices, leadership, manager characteristics, and cultural attributes that are associated with managerial values and approaches.

TL;DR: This study builds a framework to investigate the current trends emerging in hospital organizational design and its main consequences on human resources management and found that large multi-specialty hospitals, though starting from different internal and external organizational and environmental features are mostly converging towards a common design scheme.

TL;DR: The study analyzes three innovative redesign projects implemented at three Italian hospitals that have reorganized patient flow logistics around patient care needs using, as proxies, the expected length of stay and the level of nursing assistance.

TL;DR: Investigation of structural and psychological factors that lead non-urgent patients to choose the Accidents & Emergency Department (A&ED) rather than primary care services to find reasons underlying the choice and a change in access, timing and contents of care/services provided by general practitioners (GPs).