Evaluación de la situación de los inventarios y aplicación de un modelo de gestión de la farmacia institucional de una institución de salud estatal de tercer nivel de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The inventory control work and application of a management model of the institutional pharmacy of a third-level state health institution in Guayaquil, had the purpose of establishing the assessment of pharmacy management, applying an inventory model for the control of the inventory and build indicators for the management of the HFIB hospital pharmacy. It was a descriptive, qualitative, retrospective, non-experimental and applied research. The information was quantifiable, collected by surveys and a month's drug inventory. The results of pharmacy management from the users' perspective is that the workplace is adequate, the information provided is scientifically supported, it is adequate for internal users and very limited to external users, the availability of medicines ., the level of fulfillment of the delivery presents deficiencies due to the lack of medicines, or due to inventory rupture due to delays in deliveries. There is evidence of a lack of human talent in its two categories. Inventories were categorized according to the ABC inventory model; in the case of institutional pharmacy, a categorization of the inventory in relation to the use of drugs has a greater effect than to costs of the same, after the categorization of the 145 drugs used, the highest demand in relation to quantities consumed were 17 d in category “A”. It is necessary to implement the use of management indicators that allow measuring logistics management.