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Setting up a clinical engineering department. 1980

E Guignon

The problems of cost, personnel qualifications, task assignment, and productivity involved in establishing a clinical engineering department are addressed in this paper. A basic department consisting of a Clinical Engineer, a Biomedical Equipment Technician, a Testing Technician and a Clerical Assistant can provide a full range of clinical engineering services to a hospital with 225 instruments. The annual cost of such a department, including materials, would be approximately $90,000. The average capital investment in a selection of 225 instruments would be on the order of $860,000. This paper discusses levels of skills within a clinical engineering department, and the services that a hospital could expect from a four-man department.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008284	Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital	Hospital department whose primary function is the upkeep and supervision of the buildings and grounds and the maintenance of hospital physical plant and equipment which requires engineering expertise.	Engineering, Hospital,Hospital Engineering,Hospital Groundskeeping,Hospital Maintenance,Landscaping, Hospital,Groundskeeping, Hospital,Hospital Landscaping,Hospital Maintenance and Engineering,Maintenance, Hospital
D003237	Connecticut	State bounded on the north by Massachusetts, on the east by Rhode Island, on the south by Long Island Sound, and on the west by New York.
D003365	Costs and Cost Analysis	Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.	Affordability,Analysis, Cost,Cost,Cost Analysis,Cost Comparison,Cost Measures,Cost-Minimization Analysis,Costs and Cost Analyses,Costs, Cost Analysis,Pricing,Affordabilities,Analyses, Cost,Analyses, Cost-Minimization,Analysis, Cost-Minimization,Comparison, Cost,Comparisons, Cost,Cost Analyses,Cost Comparisons,Cost Measure,Cost Minimization Analysis,Cost, Cost Analysis,Cost-Minimization Analyses,Costs,Measure, Cost,Measures, Cost
D006744	Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299
D001698	Biomedical Engineering	Application of principles and practices of engineering science to biomedical research and health care.	Clinical Engineering,Engineering, Clinical,Engineering, Biomedical
D012456	Salaries and Fringe Benefits	The remuneration paid or benefits granted to an employee.	Fringe Benefits,Wages,Paternity Benefits,Pay Equity,Salaries,Benefit, Fringe,Benefit, Paternity,Benefits, Fringe,Benefits, Paternity,Equities, Pay,Equity, Pay,Fringe Benefit,Paternity Benefit,Pay Equities,Salary,Wage