Optimal Medical Equipment Maintenance Service Proposal Decision Support System combining Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).
This study describes a framework to support the choice of the maintenance service (in-house or third party contract) for each category of medical equipment based on: a) the real medical equipment maintenance management system currently used by the biomedical engineering group of the public health sy...
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2005
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| Online Access: | http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?url=https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:178765 |
| Summary: | This study describes a framework to support the
choice of the maintenance service (in-house or third party
contract) for each category of medical equipment based on: a)
the real medical equipment maintenance management system
currently used by the biomedical engineering group of the
public health system of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas
located in Brazil to control the medical equipment maintenance
service, b) the Activity Based Costing (ABC) method, and c) the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Results show the
cost and performance related to each type of maintenance
service. Decision-makers can use these results to evaluate
possible strategies for the categories of equipment. |
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