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Healthcare industry is one of the industry that particular importance for development in Malaysia economy. Nowadays, this industry trying to implement the resources more effectively and efficiently. The rapidly growth in healthcare showed that the demanding in providing the services become more challenging. Lean healthcare practices is one of the principles that can minimize the waste in every procedure and can develop the task through to healthcare system. Therefore, this study explored to review the lean healthcare practices and patient performance in public hospitals. In this study, a structured model has been proposed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM – PLS). In addition, the research hypotheses are being developed in this study.
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