title: Overcoming barriers to operating room inventory control.
abstract: Simple controls can reduce a hospital's operating room (OR) inventory by 10 percent to 30 percent. Controlling OR inventory involves a four-step plan: count the materials, estimate their value, reduce the value, and implement controls. This process provides valuable information for negotiating with vendors. Armed with inventory data, financial managers may be able to save their healthcare organizations $200,000.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States