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Hospital Laboratory Inventory Management
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 1985Standard business inventory procedures can be cost effective when they are adapted to hospital laboratory inventory management in a 500-bed hospital. The investment in a central laboratory store-room and one additional employee yields financial benefits and indirect service benefits.
W, Weinstein, R E, Wenk
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Hospital Stockpiling Problems with Inventory Sharing
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016Hospitals are typically optimized to operate near capacity, and there are serious concerns that our healthcare system is not prepared for the next pandemic. Stockpiles of different supplies, e.g., personal protective equipments (PPE) and medical equipment, need to be maintained in order to be able to respond to any future pandemics ...
Eric Lofgren, Anil Vullikanti
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Evaluation of hospital medication inventory policies
Health Care Management Science, 2013As supply chain costs constitute a large portion of hospitals' operating expenses and with $27.7 billion spent by the US hospitals on drugs alone in 2009, improving medication inventory management provides a great opportunity to decrease the cost of healthcare.
Marek, Gebicki +3 more
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Inventory management strategies for the Calabrian hospitals system
RAIRO - Operations Research, 2020This paper addresses some inventory management problems arising in the Italian health care system. We aim at defining inventory management strategies for the hospitals located in Calabria, a Region in the South of Italy. We present some classical inventory management formulations together with the description of a new model, devised to take into ...
Guerriero F., Miglionico G., Olivito F.
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Hospital pharmacy purchases and inventories
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1979The results of the hospital pharmacy purchases and inventories portion of a 1978 national mail survey of pharmaceutical services in short-term hospitals are reported. A sample of 815 hospitals was selected randomly from among 5,200 U.S. short-term hospitals that employ a pharmacist on at least a part-time basis.
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Development of risk inventory for hospitals in India
Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, 2022Introduction With the ever-increasing hazards and associated risks in healthcare, the healthcare facilities should have a comprehensive enterprise risk management program. Risk management in Indian Healthcare is nascent and not structured. With the increasing potentially compensable events, workplace violence, cybersecurity threats, complex ...
Joseph S Fidelis +4 more
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Hospital Inventory Load Survey
Journal of the Structural Division, 1978An extensive live load survey is conducted on a medium size hospital to provide data and illustrate the technique of inventory surveying. A preliminary survey defines room uses and major sources of load. Recording forms are then constructed and manufacturers' literature consulted to construct transfer functions.
John C. Harris, Ross B. Corotis
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Blood Inventory Management: Hospital Best Practice
Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 2012Blood is a perishable product, and hence good management of inventories is crucial. Blood inventory management is a trade-off between shortage and wastage. The challenge is to keep enough stock to ensure a 100% supply of blood while keeping time expiry losses at a minimum.
Sebastian H W, Stanger +3 more
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Setting Inventory Levels for Hospital Blood Banks
Transfusion, 1976A method is devised to predict the hospital blood bank inventory of each of the eight blood types that will be adequate on all but a given fraction of days (shortage rate). Analysis of the model confirms and extends prior statistical models and provides a rationale for a number of observations made on some common blood inventory practices.
E, Brodheim, R, Hirsch, G, Prastocos
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Point‐of‐Use Hybrid Inventory Policy for Hospitals
Decision Sciences, 2014ABSTRACTModern point‐of‐use technology at hospitals has enabled new replenishment policies for medical supplies. One of these new policies, which we call the hybrid policy, is currently in use at a large U.S. Midwest hospital. The hybrid policy combines a low‐cost periodic replenishment epoch with a high‐cost continuous replenishment option to avoid ...
Claudia R. Rosales +2 more
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