title: Hospitals can use price data, surveys to help pick groups.
abstract: In the first of a two-part series, Jay R. Mitzel measures the price impact of committed volume purchasing and discusses a survey of leading group purchasing directors.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000191:economics*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital; D009820:Ohio; D010934:Planning Techniques