Determinants in the number of staff in hospitals’ maintenance departments: a multivariate regression analysis approach

Cruz, Antonio; Guarín, Mayra R.

doi:10.1080/03091902.2016.1243168

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Differences in the availability of healthcare resources, patient and provider cooperation, affect the quality of healthcare services and patient outcomes differently. Efficient management of resources and processes influence the quality of health services (Mosadeghrad, 2014;Persona et al 2008;Battini & Rafele 2008;Krot & Rudawska, 2017;Miguel Cruz & Guarín 2017;Gianino et al 2017). Many studies of amenable and preventable mortality and their determinants are based on the production function of health (Nolte & McKee, 2004).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of healthcare availability on the amenable mortality: Country study

Gavurová¹,

Tóth²,

Čiutienė³

et al. 2019

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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This study aims to provide information on the relationship between the accessibility of healthcare and avoidable mortality. Many of the general indicators such as health care expenditures, mortality, life expectancy are insufficient in comparing the national healthcare systems, because they explain only a small amount of diversity caused by socioeconomic factors. The study is based on the panel data analysis for the period from 1998 to 2015 in Slovak republic. As the indicator that takes into account socioeconomic factors and represents the level of provided healthcare, the depended variable is avoidable mortality. Independent variables represent the availability of healthcare in regions. Models were estimated separately for women and men. The results demonstrate differences between sexes, lower amenable mortality in case of women, correlated to availability of practitioners, dentists, specialists, pharmacies and gynecologists. For men, there is evidence of a relation between amenable mortality and the accessibility of specialists, pediatricians, practitioners and pharmacies.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of healthcare availability on the amenable mortality: Country study

Gavurová¹,

Tóth²,

Čiutienė³

et al. 2019

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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“…This facilitated to develop a global platform for showcasing the global best practices in clinical engineering, promotion of innovative technologies, and to formulate cross discipline engagements. 20 Table 3: Biomedical Engineering Departmental Staffing criteria in various Countries [3][4][5]10,15,18…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Organization/Region Staffing Criteria of BME (Bio Medical Engineering) Department India (15) Ministry Canada (10) The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) "0. USA (3)(4)(5) ARAMARK Healthcare Technologies "2.5 FTEs (Full Time Employers) per 100 operating beds and 0.5% of hospital staff and about 5 FTE per 100 adjusted discharges or 1 FTE per 600 devices and 1 FTE per $9 million (USD) in assets"…”

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“…1 As per the American College of Clinical Engineers (ACCE), the term clinical engineering and Biomedical Engineering are synonymously used. 2 Preventive maintenance as well as repair are the two major functions of biomedical engineering department. Other tasks include but not limited to the incoming inspection and installation, prepurchase evaluations, purchase request review, equipment replacement and upgrade planning and implementation, coordinating vendor service, hazard/recall monitoring and notification, daily inspection, breakdown log, equipment incident review, ensuring regulatory compliance, committee participation, and user/maintainer training and coordination.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Biomedical Engineering Profession – An Overview and Global Comparison of Staffing Criteria and Workforce

Ramesh,

Kachroo,

Naresh Kumar

et al. 2022

IJHTI

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Introduction: Biomedical Engineering is a specialized profession that incorporates engineering, science, technology, and medicine competence and responsibilities. A biomedical engineer who works at hospital and manages the biomedical engineering department by integrating all the health care technologies for patient safety is called a clinical engineer.Methodology: Rapid literature on the workforce as well as staffing criterion has been done by searching in PubMed, google scholar and relevant websites.Results: Variations in the staffing criteria exist across all the world. There are multiple staffing criterions put forward by various health system agencies. However, a standardised staffing criterion is lacking in many countries. The conventional staffing pattern developed primarily on the basis of number of patients needs to be modified by incorporating multiple components such as the nature of care delivery, number of biomedical devices used, average number of maintenance work orders received etc. The procurement and maintenance of biomedical devices are often get disrupted in developing countries due to inadequate staffing. Low-income countries depend on donations for procurement of medical devices, however most of these devices will stop working within a period of 5 years due to lack of maintenance.Conclusion: Developing an appropriate job description specific to the county and adopting a standardised staffing pattern could contribute immensely to the medical workforce as well as improving the quality of medical care.Manuscript HighlightsThis paper provides an overview of considerations used to develop staffing criteria for biomedical engineers across the globe. The paper also does a multicounty comparison on biomedical workforce published by the World Health Organisation in order to determine the various factors to be considered for developing a staffing criterion. High income countries like Australia, Canada and USA follows standards according to their requirements whereas the LMICs doesn’t follows a framed criterion. The paper discusses various models available in place which are used by various health administrative agencies to consider developing and regulating the staffing standards of biomedical engineers in their respective regions. The paper examines the health regulations considering the biomedical engineer staffing criterions developed by regulatory and administrative agencies from different countries. Based on all these analyses, recommendations are made on criterions to be considered for developing staffing pattern and implementing regulatory body for biomedical engineering profession.

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“…One study by Ewing 8 suggests several different metrics including using 1000 PMs/BMET. Another study from Cruz and Guarín 9 suggests one BMET per 1083.72 devices, and a third by Wang et al 10 suggests 2.5 BMET/100 operating beds or 1 BMET/600 devices. There is a lack of comprehensive industry research in this area, and those that provide results may oversimplify and/or correct for known data issues.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%