Date of Graduation
5-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (PhD)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Industrial Engineering
Advisor/Mentor
Manuel D. Rossetti
Committee Member
Edward Pohl
Second Committee Member
Ashlea Bennett Milburn
Third Committee Member
Christian Hofer
Keywords
Applied sciences, Health and environmental sciences, Decsion making framework, Healthcare engineering, Medical items selection, Multiple-objective decision analysis, Physicians preference items, Value analysis
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.
Citation
Shbool, M. A. (2016). Essays in Physicians Preference Items and Inventory Management within the Healthcare Supply Chain. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1566
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Equipment and Supplies Commons, Health Information Technology Commons, Industrial Technology Commons