Reducing Waste in Healthcare
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 11382
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Medical Management, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40201, Taiwan
Interests: hospital supply chain management; green supply chain management; hospital environmental and service design; healthcare administration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of "waste" involves different aspects. For the general idea, “waste” represents a significant cost loss. In the total quality management, the term "waste" is pointed as a significant and potential loss. Hence, the risk control and waste reduction have been emphasized. For the quality engineering, Taguchi defined that the social loss function is a great waste for the inappropriate product design.
In this special issue, we encourage author(s) to define the "waste" and submit a research study or a case example in the healthcare system. In the healthcare system, "waste" can be defined as patients' waiting time, inappropriate use of medical resources, inappropriate operation flow, healthcare pollution, and so on. The given research study or case example will be an illustration of the concept of "waste management" in the healthcare system and how the concept can be applied to the healthcare to eliminate the waste.
Any research study or case example regarding improvement strategies used to decrease the waste in healthcare is also the focus in the special issue, in which the improvement indexes of decreasing the waste in healthcare should be clearly illustrated in order to let readers easily realize the feasibility and how to use the proposed improvement strategies to eliminate the waste in healthcare. Hence, in the submitted paper, a systematic conception of waste management will be clearly illustrated; thus, the waste management will lead to a decrease in expenditures and human resources in the healthcare system.
The editors encourage any researchers who are interested in the special issue. We welcome researchers to contribute their knowledge and research results to the special issue.
Prof. Dr. Hung-Chang Liao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Waste management
- Quality management
- Environmental dynamism
- Loss control
- Service design
