Optimization of hospital sterilization costs proposing new grouping choices of medical devices into packages

Francis Reymondon, Bertrand Pellet and Eric Marcon

International Journal of Production Economics, 2008, vol. 112, issue 1, 326-335

Abstract: In the current context of hospital grouping, resources' sharing is a highly interesting strategy for cost saving. Works presented in this paper are focused on a specific type of material resource, sterile reusable medical devices (RMD). Sterility is obtained through a regulated process, performed within hospital central sterilization service and preservation of this sterile state is ensured by a packaging. This article proposes a methodology enabling new grouping choices of RMD into packages. It exploits an innovative sharing strategy, with the final goal to optimize the objective function corresponding to process and storage costs of the sterilization activity.

Date: 2008
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