A Systematic Review of Medical Equipment Reliability Assessment in Improving the Quality of Healthcare Services

2021
Medical equipment highly contributes to the effectiveness of healthcare services quality. Generally, healthcare institutions experience malfunctioning and unavailability of medical equipment that affects the healthcare services delivery to the public. The problems are frequently due to a deficiency in managing and maintaining the medical equipment condition by the responsible party. The assessment of the medical equipment condition is an important activity during the maintenance and management of the equipment life cycle to increase availability, performance, and safety. The study aimed to perform a systematic review in extracting and categorising the input parameters applied in assessing the medical equipment condition. A systematic searching was undertaken in several databases, including Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, IEEE Xplore, Emerald, Springer, Medline, and Dimensions, from 2000 to 2020. The searching processes were conducted in January 2020. A total of 16 articles were included in this study by adopting Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The review managed to classify eight categories of medical equipment reliability attributes, namely equipment features, function, maintenance requirement, performance, risk and safety, availability and readiness, utilisation, and cost. Applying the eight attributes extracted from computerised asset maintenance management system will assist the clinical engineers in assessing the reliability of medical equipment utilised in healthcare institution. The reliability assessment done in these eight attributes will aid clinical engineers in executing a strategic maintenance action, which can increase the equipment's availability, upkeep the performance, optimise the resources, and eventually contributes in providing effective healthcare service to the community. Finally, the recommendations for future works are presented at the end of this study.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:9
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2021
学科领域
循证公共卫生
国家
马来西亚
语种
英语
DOI
10.3389/fpubh.2021.753951
其他关键词
GOOGLE SCHOLAR; MAINTENANCE; PRIORITIZATION; MANAGEMENT; SCIENCE; SCOPUS; WEB
EISSN
2296-2565
资助机构
University Malaya Research Grant Faculty Programme [RF010-2018A]; Motorola Solution Foundation [IF014-2019]
资助信息
This work was supported by the University Malaya Research Grant Faculty Programme (RF010-2018A) and International Funding from Motorola Solution Foundation (IF014-2019).
被引频次(WOS)
1
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
Universiti Malaya Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)
关键词
medical devices biomedical equipment performance evaluation maintenance management assessment prediction