Prevention of Missing the Fee of Medical Supplies and Improvement Activity of Cost Cutting

Choi, Hyun-ju

doi:2015.21.1.52

Qual Improv Health Care > Volume 21(1); 2015 > Article

Quality Improvement in Health Care 2015;21(1): 52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14371/QIH.2015.21.1.52 Published online June 30, 2015.

진료재료대 수가누락방지 및 비용절감 개선활동

최현주

가야대학교 간호학과

Prevention of Missing the Fee of Medical Supplies and Improvement Activity of Cost Cutting

Hyun-ju Choi

Department of Nursing, Kaya University

Abstract

Objectives
Because recently hospital had to faced with financial hardship, we have to have more effective hospital management. The purpose of this study was to reduce loss costs of the hospital through the systematic management of medical supplies and increase operational efficiency.
Methods
The team was composed of outpatient nursing staff, medical record administrator, nurses in medical insurance, medical computer center, dermatologists for this study. We surveyed for 114 people including outpatient nursing staff, nurse aids, medical assistant, physician assistant. Pre-survey period was 2013.03.11 ~ 03.30(2 weeks), and post-survey period was 2013.09.03 ~ 09.17(2 weeks).
Result
We improved this way through the computational improvement, conservation campaigns, inventory management, staff training, replaced by low-cost medical supplies. The finding of this study were as follows: Comparing before and after the activity of outpatient nursing staff's degree of knowledge, performance, economic consciousness, the degree of knowledge, performance was increased, but there was no significant change in economic consciousness. Performance of Married person is higher than the unmarried, In addition, the high-position people were more the degree of knowleage, economic consciousness. After activity, correlation of goods and treatment, examinations is increasing, but statistically there was no mean.
Conclusion
This study revealed that knowledge in a short period of activity, but also can improve, perform the same change in behavior is not easy. This one shows the intensive training required to sustained and systematic behavioral changes, such as changes in behavior, perform rituals to help the economy. Expensive medical supplies to replace a similar effect as the cost of materials just to have a lot of cost savings. Therefore, more medical supplies change is necessary to develop alternative treatment and cost cutting.

Key words Medical Supplies;Missing the fee;Improvement Activity;Cost Cutting;