Benchmarking Comparison Between Beijing and American Hospitals

The first clinical engineering (CE) benchmarking between Chinese and American hospitals was performed in 2014. At that time, only data from Zhejiang province were available. A new comparison was completed in 2018 with data collected from 11 hospitals from the capital city of Beijing. These data were compared with those from 270 acute care hospitals in the United States. First, comparisons were made with hospital data such as patient discharges, patient days, equipment quantity and cost, and operating costs. The CE benchmarking comparison was made in 3 categories: (a) operations, (b) finance, and (c) staffing/productivity. Within the operations category, the following metrics were compared: equipment amount/operating beds, annual repairs/equipment amount, and annual scheduled maintenance/equipment amount. Within the finance category, the following metrics were compared: total CE expense/total hospital operating expense, total CE expense/operating beds, and total CE expense/equipment cost. Within the staffing/productivity category, the following metrics were compared: total CE full-time equivalent (FTE)/equipment amount, total CE FTE/operating beds, and total CE FTE/total hospital operating expense. These comparisons showed the following: (1) Although still a bit lower than the United States, Beijing hospitals have more equipment than Zhejiang but a slightly lower amount of repairs and scheduled maintenance per equipment; (2) the total CE expense/total hospital operating expens...
Source: Journal of Clinical Engineering - Category: Medical Devices Tags: FEATURE ARTICLES Source Type: research