Adapting just-in-time inventory control to the hospital setting.
The principles of Just-in-Time inventory management are essentially those of sensible management of productivity and waste. Much of the literature written about JIT, however, is limited in scope in that it focuses on applications in a manufacturing operation. The best way to assess JIT's applicability to all businesses, including hospitals, is to synthesize the characteristics into a basic, conceptual model, which the author does in the following article.
D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States