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Article: Facilitating Patient‐Centric Thinking in Hospital Facility Management: A Case of Pharmaceutical Inventory
Title | Facilitating Patient‐Centric Thinking in Hospital Facility Management: A Case of Pharmaceutical Inventory |
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Keywords | facility management hospital environments logistics management patient‐oriented pharmaceutical services |
Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | Buildings, 2022, v. 12, n. 7, article no. 888 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Conventional hospital facility management (FM) focuses on reasonably allocating various resources to support core healthcare services from the perspectives of the FM department and hos-pital. However, since patients are the main service targets of hospitals, the patients’ demographic and hospitalization information can be integrated to support the patient‐centric facility manage-ment, aiming at a higher level of patient satisfaction with respect to the hospital environment and services. Taking the pharmaceutical services in hospital inpatient departments as the case, forecasting the pharmaceutical demands based on the admitted patients’ information contributes to not only better logistics management and cost containment, but also to securing the medical require-ments of individual patients. In patient‐centric facility management, the pharmacy inventory is re-garded as the combination of medical resources that are reserved and allocated to each admitted patient. Two forecasting models are trained to predict the inpatients’ total medical requirement at the beginning of the hospitalization and rectify the patients’ length of stay after early treatment. Specifically, once a patient is admitted to the hospital, certain amounts of medical resources are reserved, according to the inpatient’s gender, age, diagnosis, and their preliminary expected days in the hospital. The allocated inventory is updated after the early treatment by rectifying the inpa-tient’s estimated length of stay. The proposed procedure is validated using medical data from eight-een hospitals in a Chinese city. This study facilitates the integration of patient‐related information with the conventional FM processes and demonstrates the potential improvement in patients’ satisfaction with better hospital logistics and pharmaceutical services. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/341366 |
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dc.contributor.author | Xie, Xiang | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fang, Zigeng | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Long | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lu, Qiuchen | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tan, Tan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ye, Zhen | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pitt, Michael | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-13T08:42:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-13T08:42:15Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Buildings, 2022, v. 12, n. 7, article no. 888 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/341366 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Conventional hospital facility management (FM) focuses on reasonably allocating various resources to support core healthcare services from the perspectives of the FM department and hos-pital. However, since patients are the main service targets of hospitals, the patients’ demographic and hospitalization information can be integrated to support the patient‐centric facility manage-ment, aiming at a higher level of patient satisfaction with respect to the hospital environment and services. Taking the pharmaceutical services in hospital inpatient departments as the case, forecasting the pharmaceutical demands based on the admitted patients’ information contributes to not only better logistics management and cost containment, but also to securing the medical require-ments of individual patients. In patient‐centric facility management, the pharmacy inventory is re-garded as the combination of medical resources that are reserved and allocated to each admitted patient. Two forecasting models are trained to predict the inpatients’ total medical requirement at the beginning of the hospitalization and rectify the patients’ length of stay after early treatment. Specifically, once a patient is admitted to the hospital, certain amounts of medical resources are reserved, according to the inpatient’s gender, age, diagnosis, and their preliminary expected days in the hospital. The allocated inventory is updated after the early treatment by rectifying the inpa-tient’s estimated length of stay. The proposed procedure is validated using medical data from eight-een hospitals in a Chinese city. This study facilitates the integration of patient‐related information with the conventional FM processes and demonstrates the potential improvement in patients’ satisfaction with better hospital logistics and pharmaceutical services. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Buildings | - |
dc.subject | facility management | - |
dc.subject | hospital environments | - |
dc.subject | logistics management | - |
dc.subject | patient‐oriented | - |
dc.subject | pharmaceutical services | - |
dc.title | Facilitating Patient‐Centric Thinking in Hospital Facility Management: A Case of Pharmaceutical Inventory | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/buildings12070888 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85134537836 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 7 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 888 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 888 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2075-5309 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000832199900001 | - |