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Complexities and capabilities of Scan4Safety in NHS hospitals: a qualitative study of a national demonstrator site [PDF]
BMJ Health & Care InformaticsObjectives Data standards and barcoding technologies are implemented in hospitals to uniquely identify objects, people and locations; streamline the management of supplies and inventories; improve efficiency; reduce waste and improve patient safety and ...
Dawn Dowding +7 more
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Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022 Objective: Given the global uncertainty faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic, health services were forced to adjust inventory management and purchase projections.
Villalobos-Madriz Jorge +4 more
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Sensors, 2021 Governments have been challenged to provide timely medical care to face the COVID-19 pandemic. Under this pandemic, the demand for pharmaceutical products has changed significantly.
Fernando Rojas +3 more
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SG-APSIC1128: BHQ instrument management at Bangkok Hospital
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023 Objectives: We evaluated the BHQ instrument management strategies at Bangkok Hospital as well as the general instrument and surgical instrument inventories to develop effective management of general and surgical instruments.
Rome Chomrak
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Quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objective: to assess quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Method: a cross-sectional, quantitative study, conducted in a reference hospital for the treatment of pulmonary diseases.
César de Andrade de Lima +6 more
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A dynamic control system for hospital inventories [PDF]
Proceedings of the 6th conference on Winter simulation, 1973 This paper offers an approach to the inventory problem involving stochastic demand and stochastic lead time when only empirical distributions of these random variables are available. The proposed inventory model utilizes experimental optimization in a unique fashion to solve this problem.Through the use of Monte Carlo simulation and a modified non ...
James D. Durham, Stephen D. Roberts
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National Inventory of Hospital Trauma Centers [PDF]
JAMA, 2003 ContextTrauma centers benefit thousands of injured individuals every day and play a critical role in responding to disasters. The last full accounting of the number and distribution of trauma centers identified 471 trauma centers in the United States in 1991.ObjectiveTo determine the number and configuration of trauma centers and identify gaps in ...
Ellen J, MacKenzie +6 more
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Order policy for emergency medicine with return uncertainty in a closed-loop supply chain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Due to difficulties in accurately predicting the emergency timing and the magnitude of a disaster, operations for perishable emergency inventory planning often encounter expiration and shortage problems.
Wei Pan +4 more
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Implementation of a free water protocol at a long term acute care hospital
Scientific Reports, 2023 This feasibility study aimed to trial a Free Water Protocol (FWP) for patients with thin liquid dysphagia in the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) setting. Patients with dysphagia are often prescribed thickened liquids to avoid or mitigate aspiration.
Stefanie Gaidos +2 more
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Asian Journal of Technology Management, 2016 . This research was aimed to analyze the excess inventories issue in pharmacy and medical equipment unit at a local hospital in Bandung which affected the service level of the hospital.
Fina Hafnika +3 more
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