Journal
JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
Volume 62, Issue 9, Pages 1666-1687Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.106
Keywords
medical devices; hospitals; criticality prioritization; maintenance decisions; risk; MCDM; AHP
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE)
- C-MORE Consortium
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Clinical engineering departments in hospitals are responsible for establishing and regulating a Medical Equipment Management Program to ensure that medical devices are safe and reliable. In order to mitigate functional failures, significant and critical devices should be identified and prioritized. In this paper, we present a multi-criteria decision-making model to prioritize medical devices according to their criticality. Devices with lower criticality scores can be assigned a lower priority in a maintenance management program. However, those with higher scores should be investigated in detail to find the reasons for their higher criticality, and appropriate actions, such as 'preventive maintenance', 'user training', 'redesigning the device', etc, should be taken. In this paper,we also describe how individual score values obtained for each criterion can be used to establish guidelines for appropriate maintenance strategies for different classes of devices. The information of 26 different medical devices is extracted from a hospital's maintenance management system to illustrate an application of the proposed model. Journal of the Operational Research Society (2011) 62, 1666-1687. doi:10.1057/jors.2010.106 Published online 11 August 2010
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