Critical Device Reliability Assessment in Healthcare Services

Figure 1

Medical devices maintenance category. (a) Malaysian government hospital practice with maintenance during downtime includes preventive maintenance, routine inspection, corrective maintenance, and scheduled corrective maintenance [15]. (b) Evolution through time for maintenance policies and categorizes maintenance to corrective and preventive maintenance [24]. (c) Planned maintenance is divided as design-out, preventive, and corrective maintenance correspondingly [21].

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(b)

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