Table 4 Target area and application of leagility in health care

Hospital-wide

7

Vries et al. (1999); Towill & Christopher (2005); Guimarães & de Carvalho (2012); Guimarães & de Carvalho (2013); Tolf et al. (2015); Pohjosenperä et al. (2019); Al Fannah et al. (2022) [26, 27, 29, 40, 42, 44, 46]

Patient flow

6

Rahimnia & Moghadasian (2010); Aronsson et al. (2011); Saghafian et al. (2012); Guven et al. (2014); Olsson & Aronsson (2015); Wikner et al. (2017) [7, 22, 28, 32,33,34]

Overall healthcare system

2

Dixit et al. (2019); Sen et al. (2021) [1, 30]

Pharmacy

3

Nabelsi & Gagnon (2017); Mishra et al. (2019) [20, 35]

Equipments

1

Nabelsi & Gagnon (2017) [35]

Clinical laboratory

1

Pérez et al. (2015) [21]

Healthcare technology

1

Ni et al. (2020) [36]

Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics

1

Kuupiel et al. (2017) [43]

Communication process

1

Toussaint et al. (2004) [41]

Operating room (OR) cleaning

1

Claudio et al. (2021) [45]

Vaccine supply chain

1

Yadav & Kumar (2022) [31]