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ABC and VED Analysis of Medical Materials of a General Military Hospital in Greece
- Source :
- Journal of Health Management. 19:170-179
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- ABC and VED analysis of a General Military Hospital of Athens was conducted in order to highlight expensive medical products, as a management tool. The annual consumption and expenditure incurred on each product for the year 2012 was analyzed and inventory control techniques were applied. ABC analysis revealed 5, 15 and 80 per cent products as A, B and C category products, respectively, accounting for 52, 28 and 20 per cent of annual expenditure. VED analysis showed 420, 689 and 2,101 products as V, E and D category products out of 3,210 products.
- Subjects :
- ABC analysis
Consumption (economics)
Health Policy
05 social sciences
Management tool
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Order (business)
0502 economics and business
Operations management
030212 general & internal medicine
Business
Activity-based costing
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09730729 and 09720634
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Health Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d8af18b17986bf9622d202840199dcec
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0972063416682643