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    A questionnaire measuring staff perceptions of Lean adoption in healthcare: Development and psychometric testing

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    Authors
    Kaltenbrunner, M.
    Bengtsson, L.
    Mathiassen, Svend
    Engström, M.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Kaltenbrunner, M. and Bengtsson, L. and Mathiassen, S. and Engström, M. 2017. A questionnaire measuring staff perceptions of Lean adoption in healthcare: Development and psychometric testing. BMC Health Services Research. 17 (1): pp. 1-11.
    Source Title
    BMC Health Services Research
    DOI
    10.1186/s12913-017-2163-x
    ISSN
    1472-6963
    School
    School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68881
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2017 The Author(s). Background: During the past decade, the concept of Lean has spread rapidly within the healthcare sector, but there is a lack of instruments that can measure staff's perceptions of Lean adoption. Thus, the aim of the present study was to develop a questionnaire measuring Lean in healthcare, based on Liker's description of Lean, by adapting an existing instrument developed for the service sector. Methods: A mixed-method design was used. Initially, items from the service sector instrument were categorized according to Liker's 14 principles describing Lean within four domains: philosophy, processes, people and partners and problem-solving. Items were lacking for three of Liker's principles and were therefore developed de novo. Think-aloud interviews were conducted with 12 healthcare staff from different professions to contextualize and examine the face vali dity of the questionnaire prototype. Thereafter, the adjusted questionnaire's psychometric properties were assessed on the basis of a cross-sectional survey among 386 staff working in primary care. Results: The think-aloud interviews led to adjustments in the questionnaire to better suit a healthcare context, and the number of items was reduced. Confirmatory factor analysis of the adjusted questionnaire showed a generally acceptable correspondence with Liker's description of Lean. Internal consistency, measured using Cronbach's alpha, for the factors in Liker's description of Lean was 0.60 for the factor people and partners, and over 0.70 for the three other factors. Test-retest reliability measured by the intra-class correlation coefficient ranged from 0.77 to 0.88 for the four factors. Conclusions: We designed a questionnaire capturing staff's perceptions of Lean adoption in healthcare on the basis of Liker's description. This Lean in Healthcare Questionnaire (LiHcQ) showed generally acceptable psychometric properties, which supports its usability for measuring Lean adoption in healthcare. We suggest that further research focus on verifying the usability of LiHcQ in other healthcare settings, and on adjusting the instrument if needed.

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