TY - BOOK AU - Neven Saleh Khalil Saleh AU - Amr Abdalrhman Sharawy , AU - Gabriella Balestra , AU - Manal Abdelwahed , TI - Comprehensive frameworks for decision making support in medical equipment management / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Neven Saleh Khalil Saleh , KW - Medical equipment management KW - Priority KW - Quality function deployment N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Throughout medical equipment life cycle, hospitals need to take decisions on medical equipment management based upon a set of different criteria. In fact, medical equipment acquisition, preventive maintenance, and replacement are considered the most important phases, accordingly a properly planned management for these issues is considered a key decision of medical equipment management. In this thesis, a set of frameworks were developed regarding acquisition, preventive maintenance, and replacement to improve management process of medical equipment. In practice, quality function deployment was proposed as a core method around which the frameworks were developed UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -