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Title:
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PROPOSAL OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMISE DRUG MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS |
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Author(s):
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Raffaele Iannone, Salvatore Miranda, Stefano Riemma, Debora Sarno |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-49-6 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Conceptual framework, healthcare management, drug logistics. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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215 |
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Last Page:
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220 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Drug expenditure is a relevant factor in profit and loss account of healthcare systems. Hospital management is in charge of optimising drug management in order to reduce inventory costs and maximise the cost-effective use of personnel and resources. This paper presents a conceptual framework to tackle this problem, embodying the starting point for future researches. To this purpose, it describes a representation of physical and information flows related to drugs in a hospital , the variables related to the hospital environment, the management parameters useful to reach the drug system optimisation and the performance indicators to measure efficiency of approaches. |
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