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- Title
USAGE OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT PURCHASING DECISIONS: A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CASE.
- Authors
Gırgıner, Nuray; Uçkun, Nurullah; Erken Çelik, Arzum
- Abstract
For acquiring the advantages of high technologies managers of health sector institutions occasionally must make important investment decisions. The most rational and maximum benefit must be required from these investments. In managing the hospitals which are financed by the government chiefly, decisions related to purchasing of the medical equipments convert into complex decision problems which require consideration of a good many criteria (financial criteria, medical benefits, other benefits, requirements, etc.). Purchased equipments will be used not only for taking the best yield from the existing resources, but also for different aims of following and applying the improved technologies and scientific techniques, and increasing the service quality. In this study, medical equipment purchasing decision stages applied in a university hospital have been examined, and priorities of the medical equipments which are planned to be purchased have been determined with the help of Analytic Hierarchy Process which is one of the multicriteria decision making techniques.
- Subjects
HOSPITAL purchasing; HOSPITAL materials management; MULTIPLE criteria decision making; MEDICAL equipment &; supplies stores; DECISION making; UNIVERSITY hospitals; ACADEMIC medical centers
- Publication
Electronic Journal of Social Sciences, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 26, p138
- ISSN
1304-0278
- Publication type
Article