title: Price indexing: a quantitative approach to measuring laboratory supply costs.
abstract: Price indexing will identify items which contribute significantly to escalating laboratory supply costs. Altering purchasing techniques on these items can hold inflationary cost increases to a minimum.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000191:economics*; D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital