@article {10.3844/ajassp.2016.439.450,
article_type = {journal},
title = {A Hybrid Decision-Making Model for Maintenance Prioritization in Health Care Systems},
author = {Mahfoud, Hassana and Barkany, Abdellah El and Biyaali, Ahmed El},
volume = {13},
year = {2016},
month = {Apr},
pages = {439-450},
doi = {10.3844/ajassp.2016.439.450},
url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2016.439.450},
abstract = {Clinical engineering departments have to establish and continuously regulate a Medical Equipment Management Program (MEMP) to ensure a high reliability and safety of their critical medical devices. Asset criticality assessment is an essential element of reliability centered maintenance and risk-based maintenance, especially when enormous various devices exist and the worst failure consequences are not evident. This paper presents a new risk-based prioritization framework for maintenance decisions. We propose a Multi-Expert Multi-Criteria decision making (MEMC) model to classify medical devices according to their criticality and we describe how obtained scores are used to set up guidelines for appropriate maintenance strategies.},
journal = {American Journal of Applied Sciences},
publisher = {Science Publications}
}