Examinando por Autor "Cruz, A. M. (Antonio Miguel)"

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    ¿Disenso entre pares revisores? No se preocupe, que a fin de cuentas el editor siempre tiene la última palabra
    (2014-04-30) Cruz, A. M. (Antonio Miguel)
    All of us have at some point submitted a scientific paper for review with the idea of being published in a given journal. Often, the authors experience many barriers to success (achieving publication) when they submit articles for publication. These barriers depend on the quality of the writing itself, on the biases of the peer reviewers, the way you write your cover letter, and the way in which you address and respond to the observations (erroneous or not) emitted by peer reviewers and the editor of the journal. The purpose of this paper is to provide useful pieces of advice on how to publish articles that tackle issues in the health area in high impact journals in the area of Operations Research & Management Sciences.
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    Evaluación de las solicitudes de mantenimiento correctivo usando técnicas de agrupamiento y reglas de asociación
    (2014-04-23) Cruz, A. M. (Antonio Miguel); Barr, C. (Cameron); Castilla-Casado, N. (Norberto )
    In this research association discovering and clustering techniques for the resolution of the low efficiency problem in the sterilization service in a hospital under study were used. The aim was to find and to discriminate the main causes of the problem under study and then to apply corrective solutions. To conduct this research the information contained in corrective maintenance work orders and service requests in the period under study (2002-2004) was collected. First a segmentation of the information was carried out using the indicator: corrective service request versus number of medical devices. The levels of the information segmentation were: equipment types, services or cost centre, original equipment manufacturer and models. Then the association discovery technique was used. It revealed that the main causes of low efficiency in sterilization service were: users’ training (errors in operation procedures), intrinsic failures in medical devices, and bad scheduled maintenance policies. Clustering technique uncovered the main causes of failures: malfunctioning of the power supply system (steam and water, in 75% of all cases). With the evidence obtained corrective actions were taken. The service requests dropped dramatically from 6.4 to 0.4 during the period 2005-2006.
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    La ingeniería biomédica en Colombia: una perspectiva desde la formación del pregrado
    (2014-04-24) Ríos-Rincón, A. M. (Adriana María); Cruz, A. M. (Antonio Miguel); Rodríguez-Cheu, L. E. (Luis Eduardo); Chaparro-Preciado, J. A. (Javier Alberto)
    This academic paper presents the state of Colombia`s undergraduate education in Biomedical Engineering. Programs of the European Union and of the United States were reviewed. In the national level, fifteen programs of different higher education institutions were reviewed under the category of Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, based on three information sources: University official Website, Information System on higher education and work observatory of the National Education Ministry. It was found that the total offer of national undergraduate programs in Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering in Bogota D.C represents the 30% of the total offer in the country, Antioquia (Medellín) represents the 27%, Valle del Cauca (Cali) the 13% and the other departments represent the 30% left. The undergraduate programs in Biomedical Engineering show similar standards regarding length, and professional developing competences with slight differences in the graduation profiles and the emphasis. In the present, there are at least 528 graduated Biomedical Engineering and bioengineers in the country (0,27% of all engineering graduates). The rate of graduates per year, between 2001 and 2007, is close to 75 biomedical Engineers and bioengineers. It can be concluded, that despite the offer of active programs in the national level, the rate of graduates is low in relation to: the Colombian population which is growing, the growth of the number of people with disabilities and elders, and the number of graduates from other engineering fields. A reflection is proposed, regarding the challenges that worldwide scientific and technological advances present, which in some measure become formation directives.