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CD-ROM data bases such as HealthPLAN-CD and CINAHL-CD allow hospital materials managers to gain information needed in making purchasing decisions. HealthPLAN-CD contains abstracts and citations on planning, management, licensing, accreditation and insurance of health care facilities. On the other hand, CINAHL-CD carries an extensive collection of nursing journals, association publications, biomedical journals and other publications on health sciences, education, behavioral sciences, management and popular literature. Both data bases are cost-efficient and user-friendly.
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Hospital purchasing managers can enlist the help of nurses in evaluating products for purchase since these nurses are very well informed of such hospital products. Nurses can easily provide information about the benefits and disadvantages of using certain products. They can also determine whether or not a product is convenient to use. At present, both the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the Association of Operating Room Nurses require their nurses to participate in hospital product evaluation.
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Materiel management executives may save their hospitals more money in the short-term by using a group purchasing contract instead of renegotiating a new contract. Such an approach is more cost-effective because it frees hospitals to concentrate on products and services which are not covered by group purchasing organizations and eliminates lost savings incurred during the renegotiation period.
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