Table 1.
Search strategy and paper selection
| Database | Keywords | Total papers: 1348
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| Selection criteria | Number of papers after selection | ||
| – Web of Science (ISI) | CRM “and” lean health care | Exclusion of duplications and papers not useful to answer literature review questions after reading the title and the abstract | 157 |
| – PubMed | Lean management “and” CRM | ||
| – Business Source Premier (EBSCO) | Lean organization “and” CRM | ||
| – Compendex (Ei Village 2) | Lean management “and” health RM | ||
| – Inspec (Ei Village 2) | Lean organization “and” health RM | No conference proceedings, opinion papers, lecture notes and papers of only 1–3 pages, papers with no references, and non-English language papers. | 116 |
| RM “and” lean health care | |||
| Lean hospital “and” CRM | |||
| Six sigma “and” CRM | |||
| Six sigma “and” medical error | |||
| Six sigma “and” clinical error | CIMO: inclusion of papers whose context was that of health care providers, such as hospitals and papers which consider lean health care and its relationship with clinical errors(even if they are only mentioned in the results or in the objectives; IMO) | 46 | |
| Lean “and” clinical error | |||
| Lean patient safety “without” obesity weight | |||
| Lean patient safety “without” obesity body | |||
Abbreviations: CIMO, context, interventions, mechanisms, and outcomes; CRM, clinical resource management; IMO, interventions, mechanisms and achieved outcomes; RM, resource management.