Abstract
Today, the significance of medical equipment
in health and safety of communities cannot be exaggerated. So, all countries
need to consider its optimal management because of its significant effect on
their development from the perspective of healthcare economics, medical
education, and research. In the meantime, annually a significant amount of
medical equipment loses its efficiency due to aging, failure, high maintenance
costs, and other factors so that it will be unavoidable to replace the
equipment effectively. In this regard, given the critical role of the
equipment, it is imperative to formulate a strategic and macro program for
medical equipment management to replace the available equipment in order to reduce
the risk for patients and hospital staff as well as to ensure the availability
of services. The present study addressed designing a system of medical
equipment replacement using a hybrid SWOT-FANP approach. The approach intends
to increase the self-confidence of decision-makers and owners of medical
equipment and provide them with adequate supporting evidence and thereby,
motivate the formulation of medical equipment replacement strategies selected
by the SWOT matrix and with the aid of fuzzy analytic network process (FANP)
for their prioritization. The teaching hospitals of a province in Iran were
selected as the case study. The applied hybrid approach allows measuring the
dependencies of the SWOT factors to consider them in assigning a strategic weight
and weights to sub-factors and changing the prioritization of the alternative
strategies.
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