Substituição ou compra de equipamentos médico hospitalares pela aplicação do método AHP

Abstract

Introduction - Technology has dominated the practice of medicine, so that practically all medical specialties depend in some way on medical and hospital equipment. Such dependence increases the need to implement effective technology management methodologies in a way that makes processes and decisions more assertive. Since 2015, when the Hospital Universitário de Lagarto - UFS was incorporated by the EBSERH and started to receive incentives, mainly through Programa Nacional de Reestruturação dos Hospitais Universitários Federais (Rehuf), there was an expressive growth and renovation of the hospital's technological park with massive replacements of hospital medical equipment, however, no flow, process or policy has been implemented or used. Aim - To propose and implement a tool to replace HEM using the AHP method at Hospital Universitário de Lagarto. Methods - It was a bibliographic search based on online database in order to determine the method to be chosen, study and description of the method, proposition of using the AHP method in the problem of replacing medical and hospital equipment and application. Results - Based on the applied methodology, it was possible to elaborate the proposed tool for decision making to replace medical and hospital equipment, and this substitution may come from the purchase, donation or internal relocation of equipment in the hospital, the tool was described in the manual format instructions for application of the method in any hospital in the EBSERH. Conclusions - The analysis of the AHP method presented advantages, such as simplicity and ease of application, in addition to a simple and objective answer.