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The Cost of Biomedical Equipment Repair and Maintenance - Results of A Survey - PubMed

The document summarizes the results of a survey on the costs of biomedical equipment repair and maintenance. It found that on average for 19 large hospitals, the ratio of equipment repair costs to acquisition cost was 7.4%. It also discusses that costs like rent and utilities are often not included in clinical engineering department budgets. The document concludes that acquisition cost provides the best indicator for equipment maintenance costs and further standardization of cost reporting is needed.

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The Cost of Biomedical Equipment Repair and Maintenance - Results of A Survey - PubMed

The document summarizes the results of a survey on the costs of biomedical equipment repair and maintenance. It found that on average for 19 large hospitals, the ratio of equipment repair costs to acquisition cost was 7.4%. It also discusses that costs like rent and utilities are often not included in clinical engineering department budgets. The document concludes that acquisition cost provides the best indicator for equipment maintenance costs and further standardization of cost reporting is needed.

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Med Instrum. Sep-Oct 1982;16(5):269-71.

The cost of biomedical equipment repair and


maintenance: results of a survey
T Cohen

PMID:
7176994

Abstract
The survey presented in this paper shows that for 19 large hospitals the average ratio of equipment
repair costs to acquisition cost was 7.4%. In addition, this survey shows that costs such as rent for
building space, utilities, and test equipment are not included in many clinical engineering department
budgets. This is one reason for the divergent cost data reported by the various hospitals. These costs
should be considered particularly for comparisons between in-house service costs and other sources
of service. It seems that, of the indicators observed in this survey, equipment acquisition cost provides
the best indicator for equipment maintenance costs. All hospital finance officers should have
acquisition value information, because this information is used in calculating capital equipment
depreciation. This information should also be available to clinical engineers. In addition, procedures
need to be set up so that the total annual repair and maintenance costs can be easily obtained from
hospital finance departments. Providing the clinical engineer with this type of data will allow further
analysis of repair cost and will aid in long-term planning for the hospital. The ratio of equipment
repair cost to acquisition value may be useful as a tool to predict future costs of a given hospital's
medical equipment maintenance. This tool may also be useful as a measurement of the effectiveness
of a change in a hospital's approach to biomedical equipment maintenance. Further work must be
done to standardize equipment maintenance cost reporting so that more detailed comparisons can
be made.

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