title: Challenges and opportunities of health care supply chain management in the United States.
abstract: This article explores current supply chain management challenges and initiatives and identifies problems that affect supply chain management success in the U.S. health-care industry. In addition, it investigates the impact of health care supply chain management (SCM) initiatives on the overall organizational effectiveness. The attitudinal results, as well as the performance results presented in this study support the claim of health care proponents that the SCM allows organizations to reduce cost, improve quality, and reduce cycle time, and leads to high performance.
authors.affiliation: College of Business and Applied Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois 61920, USA. dselmuti@eiu.edu
authors.forename: Dean
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Elmuti
authors.forename: Grace
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Khoury
authors.forename: Omar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Omran
authors.forename: Ahmed S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Abou-Zaid
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States