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Introduction: The hospital’s pharmacy is one of the most heavily used therapeu?c services and one of the few places where a significant amount of money is spent on recurrent purchases. This underlines the need of strategically planning, crea?ng, and arranging the pharmacy to ensure effec?ve clinical and administra?ve services. Materials and Methods:Inventory control techniques like ABC, VED and ABC-VED matrix analysis were used to evaluate the annual drug expenditure at drug store of Government Medical College & Hospital Jalgaon for the financial year 2019-20. Results:Total number of drugs in inventory in Government Medical College & Hospital Jalgaon in the year 2019-20 were 334 and the annual drug expenditure was 54040462/-. Category A comprised of 49 drugs (14.7%) for which annual drug expenditure was 37286500/- i.e. 69%. 87 drugs (26%) accoun?ng to 11324859/- (20.96%) were classified as category B drugs. Category C drugs included 198 drugs comprising 59.3% of total inventory and consumed 5429103/- i.e. 10.05% of total annual drug expenditure. 39 drugs (11.7%) were classified into vital/V category which accounted for 15257089/- i.e. 28.23% of annual drug expenditure, while essen?al/E category included 127 (38%) drugs for which 30161684/- (55.81%) was incurred for their procurement. 168 (50.3%) drugs accoun?ng to 8621689/- (15.95% of total annual drug expenditure). Conclusion:The applica?on of inventory control strategies such as ABC, VED, and the ABC-VED Matrix will help in significant improvements in pa?ent care.
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Background: To conduct economic analysis in tertiary care hospital with a view to identify the categories of drugs needing stringent management control.Methods: The annual consumption and expenditure data is obtained from the drug store of government general hospital, Vijayawada, for the period of April 2015 to March 2016. ABC-VED analysis of the drugs are done based on cost and criticality criteria respectively. ABC-VED matrix analysis was done to classify drugs into category I, II, III.Results: The total annual drug expenditure incurred on 299 drug items for the year 2015-2016 was found to be Rs:4,47,04,446. On ABC analysis, 4%, 9.36%, 86.64% of drugs were found to be Always, Better, and Control category items respectively, amounting to 68.92%, 20.05%, 11.03% of annual drug expenditure. VED analysis showed that 32.10%, 45.5%, 22.4% of drug items were Vital, Essential, and Desirable category items respectively, amounting to 35.3%, 37.1%, 27.6% of annual drug expenditure respectively. By ABC-VED matrix analysis, 34.11%, 46.49%, 19.4% of drug items were found to be category I (high stringent), II (medium stringent), III (low stringent) respectively, amounting to 80.76%, 17.46%, 1.77% of annual drug expenditure respectively.Conclusions: The study identified 34.11% of drug items belonging to category I which require high priority monitoring. Inventory management tools must be routinely used for the better control and judicious use of the resources.