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Standard business inventory procedures can be cost effective when they are adapted
to hospital laboratory inventory management in a 500-bed hospital. The investment
in a central laboratory store-room and one additional employee yields financial benefits
and indirect service benefits. The system requires consistent use of simple procedures
throughout the laboratory, and can be coupled with improved strategies for purchasing
supplies.
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© 1985 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
