Improving health care means spending more time with patients and less time with inventory.
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.
Nathan
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Management Department, St John's University, New York, USA.
Trinkaus
J
J
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