Outsourcing versus in-house maintenance of medical devices: a longitudinal, empirical study

• Main Authors: Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Adriana Rios-Rincón, Gregory L. Haugan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2014
• Subjects: Falla de equipo; servicios contratados; control de calidad; servicios externos; mantenimiento preventivo; Colombia; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Falla
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/5fd00f5026444b7ab455066ad3abdc63

OBJECTIVE: To determine what factors have a significant influence on the performance of medical device maintenance outsourcing, and to determine how the performance of external governance structures differs depending on whether a hospital is private or public. METHODS: This was a longitudinal study...