Abstract
The history of the term Lean is relatively recent and originates from the Toyota Production System (TPS). The term "Lean" means "thin", which refers to a mental process, operational, productive, no-frills, quick but not hasty, consequential to the previous event. The Lean process flows seamlessly into the result, eliminates unnecessary complications to the effect, prevents unnecessary equipment processes. The idea is to 'do more with less', like using the (few) available resources in the most productive way possible, through the elimination of all types of waste that inevitably accompanies every stage of a production process. Lean management is primarily a management philosophy, a system of values and behaviors that goes beyond the mere application of the instrument and that, once internalized, will form the nucleus of the corporate culture. "Lean Oncology" is a term coined to identify a methodology of care and treatment to cancer patients, consisting on process simplification, streamlining of the organizational and routes of drug treatment, detection and elimination of waste. Its main objective is the centrality of the patient.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 74 |
| Journal | Journal of Translational Medicine |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 25 2012 |
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Lean oncology : a new model for oncologists. / Montesarchio, Vincenzo; Grimaldi, Antonio M.; Fox, Bernard A.; Rea, Antonio; Marincola, Francesco M.; Ascierto, Paolo A.
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