Title :
Benchmarking Clinical Engineering Program
Author_Institution :
Texas Children´´s Hospital, 6621 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Abstract :
Professional labor shortage in healthcare delivery system and specifically the management of staffing effectiveness in clinical engineering field are recent developments where shortage of comparative information exist and almost no information on its impact on performance outcomes. We attempted over the past few years to define and measure optimal application of manpower to medical technology management in the hospital setting.
Keywords :
Benchmarking; Clinical engineering; Indictors; Manpower; Staffing effectiveness; Work load; Clinical diagnosis; Engineering management; Hospitals; Inventory management; Medical services; Pediatrics; Predictive models; Proposals; Technology management; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403989
