Estimating Clinical Equipment Capital Resources with Qualitative Patient Safety Data
David M. Sine, CSP, ARM, OHST, CPHRM
President
SafetyLogic Systems
Summary
Healthcare facilities can identify and prioritize patient medical equipment for scheduled
replacement by the use of several well documented options.1 Proven metrics include equipment
age, estimated useful life, depreciation, maintenance expenditures, and reliability. These
approaches are all useful for capital planning purposes but all also require the availability of a
reliable clinical equipment data base that includes discrete equipment information such as
acquisition cost, date of acquisition, book or depreciated value, detailed preventative maintenance
and repair records including frequency and cost of unscheduled maintenance, and mean time
between failures.2
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