Table 1.

Selected studies for the application of Kaizen–Kata in public hospitals.

Case	Workplace	Processes Observed	Levels of Continuous Improvement
Case A	Public Regional General Hospital of the Federal Social Security in Mexico (Toluca); 1000 beds; 940 employees	A&E (Accident & Emergency) management Medical Care with a Specialist Cardiology specialty process Cystic fibrosis specialty process	Start of the Kaizen–Kata project in February 2019, with integrated project teams Hospital with ISO 9000 certification in the cystic fibrosis process since 2015 Plans for ISO 9000 (ISO-International Organization for Standardization-9000 Quality Management System) certification of the emergency process.
Case B	Regional Public Social Security Hospital (San Andrés Cholula); 100 beds; 35 employees	A&E management Medical Care with a Specialist	Kaizen–Kata Project launched in May 2019 to improve emergency and medical care operational issues with integrated project teams.
Case C	Medium-sized General Hospital (Tlaxcala); 30 beds; 18 employees	A&E management Medical Care with a Specialist Specialty Flu and Contagiousness Process Cystic fibrosis specialty process	Pilot test (start) of the Kaizen–Kata project from October 2019 for the processes of A&E, medical care, specialty flu and contagion and specialty cystic fibrosis