Two Different Maintenance Strategies in the Hospital Environment: Preventive Maintenance for Older Technology Devices and Predictive Maintenance for Newer High-Tech Devices

Table 1

Scores used to calculate the Equipment Management Number.

Score	Function	Risk	Maintenance requirement
10	Life recovery	—	—
9	Surgical and intensive care	—	—
8	Physical therapy	—	—
7	Surgical and intensive care	—	—
6	Other physiological monitors	—	—
5	Analytical laboratory	Patient death	Very important
4	Laboratory equipment	Patient-staff injury	Moderately important
3	Computers	Wrong diagnosis	Less important
2	Belong to the patients	Treatment delays	The least important
1	Other equipment pieces	Risk not important	Minimally important