Many hospitals do not have a well-planned process to prioritize purchasing requests. Obviously, this problem is due to the lack of a fair evaluation of the requirements as well as absence of the cooperation of the hospital management staff. Therefore, it is essential to have a systematic and a comprehensive acquisition program to prevent a number of potential problems. This article presents a solution for the prioritization problem of purchasing requests of medical equipment by adopting a framework that combines Quality Function Deployment with Fuzzy logic system. The validation of the proposed model was carried out on 20 requests for purchasing medical equipment in a public hospital. The results indicate that the Quality Function Deployment-Fuzzy method can efficiently address the priority of requests considering a wide range of criteria. In addition, it can also provide the stability of process assurance

A Conceptual Priority Index for Purchasing Medical Equipment in Hospitals / Saleh, N; Sharawi, Aa; Wahed, Ma; Balestra, Gabriella. - In: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENGINEERING. - ISSN 0363-8855. - ELETTRONICO. - 40:3(2015), pp. E1-E6. [10.1097/JCE.0000000000000104]

A Conceptual Priority Index for Purchasing Medical Equipment in Hospitals

BALESTRA, GABRIELLA
2015

Abstract

Many hospitals do not have a well-planned process to prioritize purchasing requests. Obviously, this problem is due to the lack of a fair evaluation of the requirements as well as absence of the cooperation of the hospital management staff. Therefore, it is essential to have a systematic and a comprehensive acquisition program to prevent a number of potential problems. This article presents a solution for the prioritization problem of purchasing requests of medical equipment by adopting a framework that combines Quality Function Deployment with Fuzzy logic system. The validation of the proposed model was carried out on 20 requests for purchasing medical equipment in a public hospital. The results indicate that the Quality Function Deployment-Fuzzy method can efficiently address the priority of requests considering a wide range of criteria. In addition, it can also provide the stability of process assurance
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