Resumen-Los costos continuos, altos e innecesarios de la tecnología, la escasa atención del paciente, las decisiones tomadas por personas con poca experiencia y el desperdicio de recursos públicos dedicados a la salud, generan la necesidad de desarrollar un proceso racional y sistemático para la incorporación de equipos médicos. El objetivo de este trabajo fue hacer que un método comience con una recopilación de información a través de una revisión de la literatura y la implementación de una encuesta para diagnosticar el estado de los procesos de incorporación en diferentes instituciones de salud y saber cuáles son las etapas críticas y los pasos a seguir en cada uno de ellos. El método se implementó en un caso real con la adquisición de dos tecnologías: el acelerador lineal y un esterilizador de vapor. El método fue validado con dos expertos responsables de la adquisición de estos equipos para determinar su usabilidad e importancia en el proceso de incorporación de la tecnología biomédica. La validación mostró resultados cuantitativos y positivos para ambas tecnologías, ya que los expertos estuvieron satisfechos con cada uno de los aspectos evaluados y el informe final proporcionado por el método.Palabras Clave-Tecnología biomédica; incorporación; tecnología; adquisición. Method of Strategic incorporation of BioMedical technology for health inStitutionSAbstract-The continued high and unnecessary costs of technology, poor patient care, decisions made by people with little experience and waste of public resources devoted to health. All generate a need to develop a rational and systematic process for the incorporation of medical equipment. The aim of this work was to create such a method through collection of information, a literature review and implementation of a survey to diagnose the status of the processes of incorporation into different healthcare institutions and learn the critical stages and steps to be performed in each. The method was implemented in a real case with the acquisition of two technologies, a linear accelerator and a steam sterilizer. The method was validated with two experts responsible for the acquisition of this equipment to determine its usability and importance in the process of incorporation of biomedical technology. Validation showed quantitative and positive results for both technologies because the experts were satisfied with each of the aspects evaluated and the final report provided by the method.
Sepsis is a highly lethal syndrome with heterogeneous clinical manifestation that can be hard to identify and treat. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are critical to reduce mortality and promote survival in suspected cases and improve the outcomes. Several screening prediction systems have been proposed for evaluating the early detection of patient deterioration, but the efficacy is still limited at individual level. The increasing amount and the versatility of healthcare data suggest implementing machine learning techniques to develop models for predicting sepsis. This work presents an experimental study of some machine-learning-based models for sepsis prediction considering vital signs, laboratory test results, and demographics using Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) (v1.4), a publicly available dataset. The experimental results demonstrate an overall higher performance of machine learning models over the commonly used Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and Quick SOFA (qSOFA) scoring systems at the time of sepsis onset.
La auditoría en salud es un proceso dinámico y en continuo avance que permite evaluar y controlar estándares de calidad en las instituciones de salud, sin embargo, la falta de estandarización y confiabilidad de resultados sigue siendo un reto por superar. Este trabajo presenta la validación de un prototipo de herramienta de auditoría para la gestión de equipos médicos la cual se realizó en dos fases: primero durante la implementación en tres hospitales del Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburra, en Antioquia, Colombia, y posteriormente a través del análisis estadístico del juicio de expertos. Los hallazgos permitieron generar acciones de mejora con base en los informes de fortalezas y debilidades puntuales. Por su parte las mediciones de coeficientes de confiabilidad (Cronbach α= 0.90) y correlación de expertos (Spearman =0.88) indicaron resultados favorables para la herramienta. Además, la medición de promedios, desviaciones estándar y coeficientes de variación para cada ítem de la validación, expuso las mejoras que requiere la herramienta para una versión futura. La propuesta de la herramienta se limita a la regulación en salud Colombiana sin embargo no se aleja del marco normativo internacional, por lo que se considera es un paso relevante importante para convertir las auditorias en salud en procesos estandarizados. Puede concluirse que integrar al ingeniero biomédico en actividades de auditoría de calidad en salud con herramientas confiables ofrece un beneficio importante para la toma de decisiones oportuna en la gestión de los equipos médicos.
Audit in health is a dynamic process and continuous advancement that permits to asses monitor and improve quality standards in healthcare institutions; however, the lack of standardization and reliability of results remains a challenge to be overcome. This study presents the validation of a prototype of an audit tool to the management of medical equipment which took place in two phases: first during the implementation in three hospitals in the metropolitan area of Antioquia, Colombia, and subsequently through the statistical analysis of the trial of twelve selected experts. As results audit reports were generated with strengths and weaknesses points, which enabled us to build improvement measures suitable for hospitals. Measurements of coefficients of reliability (Cronbach α = 0.90) and correlation of experts (Spearman =0.88) indicated favorable results for the tool. In addition, the measurement of mean, standard deviations and coefficients of variation for each item of the validation set out the improvements required by the tool for a future version. This tool is limited to the health regulation in Colombia; nevertheless, the tool is an important step to find and transform the health audits in standardized process that can have an objective assessment. To can be concluded to integrate the biomedical engineer in the activities of audit quality on health with reliable tools offers an important benefit for accurate decision making and timely management of the medical equipment.
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