Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital
Maintaining medical equipment in hospital is a cost-deprived process yet is a crucial process that needs to be looked into. Maintaining is an ongoing process that starts with installation and ended up with disposed. The cost for maintaining equipment is often held a large portion in life cycle costi...
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| author | Salim, Siti Hajar Mazlan, Saiful Amri Salim, Siti Aisyah |
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| description | Maintaining medical equipment in hospital is a cost-deprived process yet is a crucial process that needs to be looked into. Maintaining is an ongoing process that starts with installation and ended up with disposed. The cost for maintaining equipment is often held a large portion in life cycle costing and huge amount of money need to be allocated to complete this process. The cost invested on maintaining the medical equipment should be worth the value without comprising the safety requirement and regulations. However, there are circumstances where hospitals are unable to decide when to dispose the equipment especially when the equipment reach the end of its life, incur high repairing cost, aging, and frequent failed to function. Management of hospital come into dead end solution as there are lack of proper guidelines on maintaining medical equipment and therefore the equipment may be over maintained or under maintained. This paper provides a review of 100 papers from credible sources on maintaining activities of equipment to identify factors that are important for decision making to replace the medical equipment. |
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| spelling | my.uthm.eprints-7772021-10-17T06:55:17Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/777/ Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital Salim, Siti Hajar Mazlan, Saiful Amri Salim, Siti Aisyah HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management Maintaining medical equipment in hospital is a cost-deprived process yet is a crucial process that needs to be looked into. Maintaining is an ongoing process that starts with installation and ended up with disposed. The cost for maintaining equipment is often held a large portion in life cycle costing and huge amount of money need to be allocated to complete this process. The cost invested on maintaining the medical equipment should be worth the value without comprising the safety requirement and regulations. However, there are circumstances where hospitals are unable to decide when to dispose the equipment especially when the equipment reach the end of its life, incur high repairing cost, aging, and frequent failed to function. Management of hospital come into dead end solution as there are lack of proper guidelines on maintaining medical equipment and therefore the equipment may be over maintained or under maintained. This paper provides a review of 100 papers from credible sources on maintaining activities of equipment to identify factors that are important for decision making to replace the medical equipment. Penerbit UTHM 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/777/1/DNJ9638_9af0667fe432e732477a7366403a633e.pdf Salim, Siti Hajar and Mazlan, Saiful Amri and Salim, Siti Aisyah (2019) Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital. Journal of Social Transformation and Regional Development, 1 (1). pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.30880/jstard.2019.01.01.002 |
| spellingShingle | HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management Salim, Siti Hajar Mazlan, Saiful Amri Salim, Siti Aisyah Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| title | Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| title_full | Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| title_fullStr | Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| title_short | Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| title_sort | preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital |
| topic | HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management |
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