Annotated Bibliography

First released in August 2016, CLEAR maintains a bibliography of empirical studies and systematic reviews of lean in healthcare for researchers and those seeking a detailed overview of the literature. Articles are organized by whether they addressed 1) health, process, satisfaction, and cost outcomes; 2) components, methods, barriers, and facilitators of lean healthcare interventions; or 3) lean tool development, testing, and validation in healthcare. For primary articles, papers are further sub-categorized by the organizational unit (e.g. ER, surgery, laboratory) in which lean was implemented.

Zotero Library

The bibliography is maintained as a group library on Zotero, an open-source reference software and website where anyone can search articles by tag or keyword. The most recently added articles can be seen on the main page of the group library, or you can browse the full library and search by tags and/or keyword(s). If you use an RSS feed reader/aggregator, you can be notified of new additions to the library using the “Subscribe to this feed” link to the left of the full library.New articles and summaries are added to this library as they are finalized, with CLEAR’s summaries in the field labeled “Extra” which can be seen when you expand each entry.

To view full entries with advanced filtering (including filtering by multiple tags), and to see the full reference entries, go to the Zotero library website.