- Title
- Improving hospital efficiency through preventative medical equipment maintenance intervention
- Creator
- Hill, Michael Gary
- Subject
- Medical suppliers
- Subject
- Medical imaging equipment industry
- Date Issued
- 2022-04
- Date
- 2022-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/57687
- Identifier
- vital:58200
- Description
- This research study explores the management of medical equipment maintenance within South African Hospitals. The study aims to identify the risks and challenges Clinical Engineers experience at their facilities. This study was initiated because the author discovered multiple abandoned medical devices in a single ward that were not reported to the Clinical Engineering Department. This study compromises of secondary research in the form of a literature review that that explores Clinical engineering, the medical negligence claims and the importance of medical equipment maintenance and the management thereof. Primary data was collected from Clinical Engineers at various facilities, that were asked to participate in an online questionnaire. The primary research was based in a pragmatist paradigm with an inductive approach, using a mixed methods methodological choice. A survey strategy was used over a cross-sectional time horizon. The empirical results provided an understanding into how the Clinical Engineers are managing the maintenance of their medical equipment and the challenges that they face, looking at the inventory management systems, resource management, preventative maintenance, and fault reporting. Recommendations and conclusion were made relating to the findings of the primary research and the insight it provided.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Business and Economic science, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (iii, 74 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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