Propuesta de mejoramiento para la gestión de inventarios de dispositivos médicos y su eficiencia en el control de existencias del Hospital General Riobamba del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social.

Abstract

The aim of this research was developing an improvement proposal for the management of inventories of medical devices and their efficiency in the control of stocks at the Riobamba’s General Hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute. The model analyzed the economic participation of medical devices in the budget whose non-execution reference was 30.4% for the hospital and 25.3% for the internal health network in the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS). The total cost of the participation of medical devices was 14% and its incidence in the average cost of medical care is evidenced, which for the case was 13%. The model addresses a set of activities to be developed for the management of devices according to two perspectives resulting from a SWOT analysis and the Balanced Score Card methodology. The development of this research has to do with the descriptive level, also the inductive-deductive methods were used, the type of approach used was qualitative quantitative and transversal. The reliability of the study variables was demonstrated through the CHI SQUARE and the ALPHA of CROMBASH equal to 0.910. As a result of the implementation of a ten-question survey, the analysis of the questionnaire applied to the entire population, 663 servers at the Riobamba General Hospital in 2019. The proposal was also oriented according to the guidelines established by the control figures such as the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) and the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS). It is concluded that, it is important to establish a continuous control of planning and inventory management that allows to guarantee the availability of medical supplies in the provision of health services, as well as optimizing the allocated resources and the implementation of the early warning system. It is also recommended that the inventory control provides periodic reports to show in real time the availability of supplies in order to establish timely hiring processes.