Kanban system applications in healthcare services: A literature review

Lanza León, Paloma; Sánchez Ruiz, Lidia; Cantarero Prieto, David

doi:10.1002/hpm.3276

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/23812

DOI: 10.1002/hpm.3276

ISSN: 1099-1751

ISSN: 0749-6753

Fecha

2021-07

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© 2021 John Wiley & Sons. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Lanza-León P, Sanchez-Ruiz L, Cantarero-Prieto D. Kanban system applications in healthcare services: A literature review. Int J Health Plann Mgmt. 2021;1-17, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.3276. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley's version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.

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Int J Health Plann Mgmt. 2021;1-17

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John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.3276

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Barriers

Health

Hospital

Kanban system

Positive effects

Resumen/Abstract

Lean Management method has been applied in several fields before its implementation in healthcare area. Among the different techniques associated with Lean, in this paper, we are focused on Kanban system, which is a method that pre sents several benefits such as inventory holding reduction or improvement of the employees' satisfaction. Our main objective is to carry out a literature review focused on Kanban methodology applied to health care. In this sense, this study can serve as a script to improve hospital man agementin pandemic periods, such as the one currently lived on COVID-19. We carry out a literature review searching in four different databases. We combine several terms to achieve our objective. We identify several articles which describe Kanban methodology applied to health field. More specifically, we present in what areas (nursing or pharmacy, among others) this method has been applied. In addition, we show all the barriers as well as benefits caused by the implementation of this system. There are a few studies focused on analysing how Kanban is applied to health care. Therefore, we can affirm that this topic is still recent.