Table 3.
Stock management and supply chain performance for trauma resources at low and high resource availability hospitals in Ghana
Low resource availability hospitals | High resource availability hospitals | ||||
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median | (range) | median | (range) | p-value | |
Resources managed | |||||
Items managed (out of 51 trauma resources) | 40 | (34–51) | 47 | (35–51) | 0.09 |
Stock keeping | |||||
Stock cards available | 35 | (33–45) | 44 | (25–51) | 0.52 |
Stock cards updated | 24 | (0–45) | 31 | (0–45) | 0.83 |
Supply chain performance | |||||
Stock-out on day of visit | 4 | (2–14) | 1 | (0–5) | 0.05 |
Stock-out within 6 months | 9 | (3–16) | 2 | (0–7) | 0.07 |
Number of stock-outs within 6 months | 9 | (3–57) | 2 | (0–9) | 0.09 |
Number of days stock-out | 171 | (51–1268) | 8 | (0–182) | 0.11 |