Preliminary Study on Decision Making Factors to Replace Medical Equipment in Hospital

Salim, Safyzan; Mazlan, Saiful Amri; Salim, Siti Aisyah; Malaysia, Business, Uthm, Batu Pahat, Johor,

doi:10.30880/jstard.2019.01.01.002

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“…Some issues need to be further discussed and get into the solutions, so that the medical equipment in maintaining or replacing the process is well-managed. The issues faced in decision-making of medical equipment whether to maintain or replace were: (1) poor systematic mechanism in managing medical equipment Liu & Tong (2022); (2) medical equipment maintenance made based on its age only (Salim & Mazlan, 2019); (3) lack of sources from previous study Zamzam (2021); (4) the information required for making decisions differ according to organization level Rahman (2019); and (5) errors related to medical equipment occurred (Torkzad & Beheshtinia, 2019). Hence, the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach has been used to prioritize maintenance requirements for medical equipment and establish guidelines for choosing the right maintenance strategy (Bragazzi & Mansour, 2020).…”

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A Framework for Medical Equipment Maintenance and Replacement in Private Hospitals

Uzma Sulaiman,

Salim

2024

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Maintenance and replacement are considered as a crucial process in the medical equipment life cycle management. However, most of the healthcare sectors, especially private hospitals, are still facing conflict in deciding whether to maintain or replace medical equipment, due to poor planning in the organization. Previous studies have found that irregular maintenance, poor equipment planning, and management are the main problems that often occur with medical equipment in hospitals. Thus, this study aims to identify decision-making criteria for medical equipment maintenance and replacement, to evaluate the important decisionmaking criteria for medical equipment maintenance and replacement, and to develop decision-making framework for medical equipment maintenance and replacement focusing on Malaysian private hospitals. This study has been conducted in three phases namely: identifying the criteria through systematic literature review (SLR); semi-structured interviews using qualitative approach; and pairwise survey using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). From SLR, we found 15 criteria for medical equipment maintenance and replacement. While in the interview phase, we have refined the findings from SLR and concluded that there are only nine decision-making criteria for maintenance and replacement of medical equipment. In the last phase, the analysis from AHP pairwise survey has found that the consensus indicator (CI) was low with 59% while high consistency ratio (CR) was more than 10%.

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