Work Histories in a Medical Equipment Management Program - An Analysis of Parts Replaced

John T. Collins, SASHE

Introduction
Earlier papers described a new risk assessment approach to preventive maintenance [PM] of medical equipment. By quantifying the physical and maintenance risk to patients posed by different classes of equipment, PMs could be narrowly tailored to the equipment that does pose such risks, thereby eliminating at least 65% of the pieces of equipment from unnecessary PM within the nine-hospital system that was the subject of the five-year study.

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