title: Key inventory to formulary to cut drug costs.
abstract: A sharp drop in pharmacy costs occurred when a hospital developed a generic formulary, reduced the inventory and keyed it to the formulary, and modernized its purchasing practices.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D005572:Formularies, Hospital as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D008923:Missouri; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010606:Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency