Inventory management performance, System factors, Stock out rates National referral hospitals

Abstract

Background: Inventory management critical process within the healthcare delivery system that is not systematically implemented in national referral hospitals. Methods: The study employed a cross sectional and phenomenological approaches. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Four national referral hospitals were included in the study, 15 basket commodities were selected for the study and a retrospective document review of 510 stock cards was conducted. Twelve (12) respondents were purposively selected for the study. The studies got 2040 stock cards over the study period and (510, 25%) were sampled. A total of (158,31%) of the stock cards were not updated. Artemether/ Lumafantrine and HIV determine presented the highest number of updated stock cards (80, 86%) and (36 85.7%) respectively. Availability was high for laboratory commodities while Tb commodities were the least available. Overall stock out and inventory records inaccuracy rates were high at 38.3% and $42% respectively. Largely the level of inventory management performance was poor in half of the national referral hospitals. Data management tools (p = 0.013), and Stock taking practices (p = 0.000) had a significant association with inventory management performance.