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{"title":"Medical Device Donation Practices in Canada: A Survey of Donor and Recipient Perspectives","authors":"W. Gentles, B. Bradley, Charles Yoon, Sulmaz Zahedi, Yolanda Adusei-poku, John Zienaa, Nicolas Adjabu, Yu-Ling Cheng","doi":"10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I2.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I2.44","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objective: Although developing countries have been receiving donations of medical equipment for many years, a number of studies have indicated that a high percentage of donated equipment is never put into use. [1,3,4] Many of the reasons for this can be traced back to inadequate donation practices on the part of donor organizations.  The objective of this study was to gain an improved understanding of the practices and challenges associated with medical equipment donations by Canadian charitable organizations. \u0000Material and Methods: Forty-one organizations (registered and non-registered charities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-profit organizations, medical clinics, and hospitals) completed an online survey, and 16 respondents were interviewed via telephone or in person. In addition, representatives from 28 hospitals in Ghana were interviewed in person to gain an understanding of the recipient experience. \u0000Results: We observed that for many Canadian donor organizations there is room for improvement in formalizing procedures, testing to verify equipment functionality before shipping, providing additional support for recipients in the form of manuals, spare parts and training, and long-term monitoring of donated items to measure effectiveness. For recipients, the most common challenges faced were lack of spare parts, and lack of operating or service manuals. Despite these challenges, all of the Ghanaian survey respondents said that donated medical equipment benefited their hospitals. \u0000Conclusion: We concluded that because of staffing limitations in smaller donor organizations, and in order to better meet the needs of recipients, it would be beneficial for Canadian organizations to communicate and collaborate with one another to share resources and expertise when planning donations overseas.","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"217 S696","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113972403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identification of Health Technology Management departments in Mexico’s State health services","authors":"Roberto Ayala, E. Orencio","doi":"10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I2.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I2.51","url":null,"abstract":"To advance in the verification for the development of Health Technology Management (HTM) tasks that the State Health Services in Mexico have obligation to perform,  the National Center for Health Technology Excellence (CENETEC) carried out a survey of information to identify the organizational areas in charge for such activities within each of the 32 States, since to date there is no reliable and up-to-date official information about them. It could be identified that not all States have a department with specific designation for HTM, that the vast majority of existing areas are lead by a biomedical engineering professional, and also, in most cases, they respond to infrastructure planning area directives. These findings seek to promote a discussion on the need to standardize across the country, regarding State Health Services, this type of services to improve the processes necessary for the integral management processes of medical equipment.","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124741757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor's Corner","authors":"D. Yadin","doi":"10.31354/globalce.v1i2.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/globalce.v1i2.53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116920435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of Performance Outcomes of Medical Equipment Technology Management and Patient Safety: Skilled Clinical Engineer’s Approach","authors":"Md. Anwar Hossain, Mohiudding Ahmad, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Y. David","doi":"10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I2.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I2.46","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of medical equipment technology, the quality of patient care becomes under the spotlight of clinical engineering management of medical equipment since the past 4 decades and it is continually. Researchers give in-depth attention to minimize undesired incidents which are associated with medical and surgical equipment such as patients' unnatural deaths and injuries. This proposed research work investigates the relationship between performance outcomes of medical equipment technology management/patient-care technology and the reduction in undesired events like injury and even unnatural deaths. This proposed research work investigates the effect of varying levels of performance on quality of patient care and uses an indicator such as patient safety (PS) and cost-effective care by applying mathematical modeling of clinical engineering approach methodology to medical equipment technology management. In this study the quality model of Clinical Engineering Departments is determined by educational qualification, Clinical Engineering (CE) certification, training, and duration of experiences in this field. The standard performance of patient-care technology management is determined by the parameters of medical devices and the outcomes performance of medical equipment is determined. Data for this study was collected from 18 countries including from high, upper and lower-middle income regions. We were able to collect and analyze data of different performance levels of CE and biomedical engineering programs. The analysts' report measures the performance outcomes of Medical Equipment Technology Management System (METMS) and its impact on patient-care outcomes specifically impact on the reduction of patient risk factors associated with medical and surgical equipment. The findings should encourage researchers and healthcare stakeholders to better integrate the clinical engineering professionals in a hospital in order to achieve a safe functional condition of medical equipment to keep its scheduled life span in compliance with recommended span declared by manufactures. Cost-effective Clinical Engineering Department (CED) model can be designed and monitored through the methodology of this study. We hope that this study will motivate the deployment of senescence methodology for conventional electro-medical assets, by biomedical engineering and medical professionals, healthcare policymakers, equipment users, and vendors to improve outcomes as proposed by the research work described in this paper.","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121187607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spin-off use of adverse events data: why and how. The case of FDA’s MAUDE","authors":"P. Malataras, N. Pallikarakis","doi":"10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I1.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I1.32","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: This paper attempts to measure the impact of the second stage exploitation of FDA’s MAUDE database on patient safety, technology assessment and other scientific fields. \u0000  \u0000Methods: Five bibliographic databases have been queried with the terms “Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database” and “FDA AND MAUDE”. A number of eligibility criteria where applied on the results, which led to a final group of 117 papers. An extensive study of these publications resulted to a number of interesting findings. \u0000  \u0000Results: The results concern the evolution of the database exploitation over time, and are examined according to the device groups that the identified papers are referring to, the research goals of these papers, the reasons that led the authors of these papers to use MAUDE data and finally how these data were used within their research methodology. \u0000  \u0000Conclusions: Patient safety and technology assessment are two of the scientific fields on which MAUDE database has the greatest impact. On average, more than 10 peer-reviewed papers each year involve MAUDE data as a mean to reach their research goals. This proves that MAUDE is an exploitable and valuable data source for research in these scientific fields.","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116177904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making a Difference – Global Health Technology Success Stories: Overview of over 400 submissions from 125 Countries","authors":"T. Judd, Y. David","doi":"10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I1.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I1.43","url":null,"abstract":"Health Technology (HT) is vital to global health care. The dependence of health, rehabilitation, and wellness programs on technology for the delivery of services has never been greater. It is essential therefore, that HT be optimally managed. Clinical and biomedical engineers have been recognized by World Health Organization (WHO) as essential to providing this critical management.At the 1st International Clinical Engineering and HT Management Congress and Summit held in China in 2015, a resolution was adopted by the global Clinical Engineering (CE) country participants to identify and promote CE unique qualifications, and to record the CE contributions to the improvement of world health status. Review of published literature and submissions of case studies resulted in the first group of CE success stories. The review captured 150 stories from 90 countries – spanning over a period from the prior 10 years and the results were presented to health leaders at the WHO World Health Assembly in 2016. Last year, in 2017, additional 250 case studies from a total of 125 countries were added from the 2016-2017 period. This paper describes the evidence identified during the review, their sources and the 6 major categories they represent.","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124169708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medical Device Risk Management from a Human Factors Perspective","authors":"A. Easty","doi":"10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31354/GLOBALCE.V1I1.38","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the ways in which human factors methods can help to enhance the work of established clinical engineering teams by placing a new emphasis on error reduction and patient safety. This approach in many ways represents a natural evolution for departments that are looking to enhance their usefulness and relevance to healthcare. Several examples are given of points at which the introduction of human factors methods can reveal issues related to the safe use of medical devices that are not easily accessible by other means. Adoption and implementation of these methods offers the potential for clinical engineering departments to enhance their role of helping to ensure optimal patient safety.","PeriodicalId":318587,"journal":{"name":"Global Clinical Engineering Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123965639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}