Factors Influencing The Effectiveness of Medical Products Stock Management In Polish Hospitals - Research Results

The subject of health care is fundamental to all of us. However, logistic tasks performed in health care are becoming more and more important. One of the logistics issues is the medicinal product stocks management, the process of their preparation and delivering to the patient, and IT tools supporting these activities. The authors of this article conducted research among hospitals lo-cated in the territory of the Republic of Poland. 45 hospitals participated in the study, which allows the results to be representative. The CAWI method was used in the study. The Kruskal-Wallis method was used in the analysis of the results. The research objective of the article is to identify the impact of the three distinguished factors (stock replenishment system, organization of medicinal product dose preparation and IT systems used) on the percentage of medicinal product transferred for disposal due to expiry of the date and the time between the moment the medicinal product is delivered to the mo-ment it is given to the patient. Six hypotheses were put forward in the study. The conducted research allows for setting conclusions about the factors in-fluencing the percentage of medicinal product transferred for disposal due to expiry of the date and the time between the moment the medicinal product is delivered to the moment it is given to the patient. Significant factors include the adopted stock replenishment system and the organization of preparation of medicinal product administered to the patient. The provider of the IT sys-tem supporting these processes is an irrelevant factor.