title: A multi agent system model for evaluating quality service of Clinical Engineering Department.
abstract: Biomedical technology is strategically important to the operational effectiveness of healthcare facilities. As a consequence, clinical engineers have become an essential figure in hospital environment: their role in maintenance, support, evaluation, integration, assessment of new, advanced and complex technologies in point of view of patient safety and cost reduction is become inalienable. For this reason, nations have begun to establish Clinical Engineering Department, but, unfortunately, in a very diversified and fragmented way. So, a tool able to evaluate and improve the quality of current services is needed. Hence, this work builds a model that acts as a reference tool in order to assess the quality of an existing Clinical Engineering Department, underlining its defaulting aspects and suggesting improvements.
authors.affiliation: Department, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. laura.gaetano@polito.it
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gaetano
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Balestra
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D007558:Italy; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software