Selection of Appropriate Maintenance Strategy for Medical Equipment

Clinical engineering departments in hospitals are responsible for establishing and regulating a Medical Equipment Management Program to ensure that medical equipment are safe and reliable. This paper describes an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for selecting the appropriate maintenance strategy for radiology medical equipment as maintenance plays a key role in reliability, availability, increasing efficiency, and equipment safety. Three most common strategies are considered: corrective, time-based and condition-based maintenance.