Examinando por Materia "CLINICAL ENGINEERING"

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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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    Ingeniería Clínica para no ingenieros:adquisición de equipos médicos
    (2014-04-20) Molina-Velásquez, T. (Tatiana)
    Modern healthcare relies heavily on all sorts of medical devices in order to provide care to patients. The care provided by hospitals and clinics depends in the technology that they have and the equipment that is available to offer the health service. It is therefore very important to have a person that can provide an effectively plan to acquire, maintain, and replace medical equipment and also that is capable to optimize the cost/benefit relation. The clinical engineer is the person that can develop the acquisition plan that would benefit not only the health care center but the patient and the medical staff. This article will provide to clinical and administrative staff a basic guideline to use in the technology acquisition process.