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    Comparative Study on Inventory Management Practices and Performances Among Health Facilities with and Without Auditable Pharmacy Transaction and Service Implementation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Betelhem Araya; Shiferaw Mitiku (PhD)
    Healthcare organizations need to efficiently use their available resources, improve their productivity, reduce response time, reduce operating costs, and provide high-quality services. The objective of the study was to examine the role of APTS implementation on inventory management performance of public health facilities in Addis Ababa. Mixed research approaches were employed. This study followed explanatory research design to compare and assess the inventory management performance. The sample size of health facilities was determined based on the LIAT, target population for this study were selected from 10 APTS and 10 non APTS implementing health centers and the unit of analysis included 100 pharmacists, who were working under the selected 20 health facilities. Data was collected through questioners; review of records, checklist observation, and from documented materials. The major findings from the study reveal that the inventory management practice of HCs implementing APTS were better than the HCs not implementing APTS on record keeping, stock levels, quality assurance, physical inventory status, ordering completeness, reporting accuracy & recording accuracy practices. The inventory management performance was evaluated using an independent t test, regarding time, both HCs exhibit nearly the same mean value, but the study's findings on quality, finance, and productivity showed that HCs that implemented APTS had higher mean values than those that did not. The major issues related to quality related problems were, stock outs of medicine being regular situation in the health center, product theft and leakage not being controlled, and discrepancy between the stock balance recorded and actual inventory on hand. The two main problems with finance were the inability to handle orders for cost effective resupply and failure to identify and monitor the value of missing or expired items. Factors affecting productivity were lack of tracking inventories turnover rate and ineffective use of the ABC/VEN analysis and EOQ to manage resources. The study recommended that the health centers need to implement APTS for regular physical inventory, for efficient utilization of medicines budgets, to create a facility specific drug list, doing ABC/VEN analysis to find and reconcile the medications that are most required and inventories of products that have high & low turnover rate should be tracked to increase productivity. Key words: Inventory management practice, Quality, Time, Finance, Productivity