title: Improving health care means spending more time with patients and less time with inventory.
abstract: In most hospitals and medical establishments, about 35 percent of their budgets are spent on supplies and labor to manage the inventories, material, and information flows; typically, these are managed as multiechelon systems. The importance of reducing inventory costs, among others, has become relevant in today's health care management. This research applies just-in-time concepts to health care inventories.
authors.affiliation: Management Department, St John's University, New York, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nathan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trinkaus
mesh_terms: D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States