期刊
JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
卷 62, 期 9, 页码 1666-1687出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.106
关键词
medical devices; hospitals; criticality prioritization; maintenance decisions; risk; MCDM; AHP
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE)
- C-MORE Consortium
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
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据