Essays in Physicians Preference Items and Inventory Management within the Healthcare Supply Chain
type: CreativeWork
description: This work is composed of a number of topics in the healthcare area, which are approached separately with appropriate methodologies. The two topics deal with physician preference items via two different approaches. The first one investigates stock keeping unit (SKU) proliferation in healthcare organizations due to physician preference items (PPI). It captures perspectives of physicians and supply chain professionals about this problem through two surveys. The second topic builds a decision-making framework for the PPI selection process that can be used by healthcare organizations to make more objective decisions. A Multi-criteria decision making technique is implemented to illustrate the framework.
abstract: This work is composed of a number of topics in the healthcare area, which are approached separately with appropriate methodologies. The two topics deal with physician preference items via two different approaches. The first one investigates stock keeping unit (SKU) proliferation in healthcare organizations due to physician preference items (PPI). It captures perspectives of physicians and supply chain professionals about this problem through two surveys. The second topic builds a decision-making framework for the PPI selection process that can be used by healthcare organizations to make more objective decisions. A Multi-criteria decision making technique is implemented to illustrate the framework.
author: Shbool, Mohammad A.
keywords: Applied sciences, Health and environmental sciences, Decsion making framework, Healthcare engineering, Medical items selection, Multiple-objective decision analysis, Physicians preference items, Value analysis, Equipment and Supplies, Health Information Technology, Industrial Technology
date published: 2016-05-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:59:49Z
provider: University of Arkansas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Arkansas