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- Title
Supply chain management and health services research: Aligning strange bedfellows.
- Authors
Schneller, Eugene; Abdulsalam, Yousef
- Abstract
Management of supply risk A firm that manages and monitors supply chain risk across numerous industries reported that supply chain disruptions were 67% higher in 2020 than in 2019.19 We are experiencing a paradigm shift, in health care and other industries, from a focus on supply chain efficiency (i.e., cost reduction) toward one of supply chain resiliency and contingency planning. As an evolving field, health services research has worked to define its parameters as a multidisciplinary field about access, quality, cost, and the well-being of populations.1 And while there is a sense of the importance of the impact of health technologies, our review of the health services research literature revealed little attention to supply chains in general, including their policy, management, cost, and impact on outcomes. And while there was a commoditization of bare-metal stents in favor of drug-eluting stents, the introduction of the significantly higher priced biodegradable stents has led to great cost escalation.
- Subjects
HEALTH services administration; SUPPLY chain management; DRUG prices; MEDICAL economics; HOSPITAL administration; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Health Services Research, 2022, Vol 57, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0017-9124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1475-6773.13939