caa a22 4500 465783295 CHVBK 20180323112001.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02442602 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02442602 Clinical engineering in Italy: the activity of the National Research Council [Elektronische Daten] [R. Merletti, D. Bravar] The results of a five-year effort to rationalise the process of acquisition and management of medical instrumentation in Italy are reported and discussed. The research programme, sponsored by the National Research Council of Italy, was completed in 1988 and focused on (1) acquisition of technology by hospitals; (2) assessment of performance evaluation and preventive maintenance procedures for biomedical equipment; (3) cost analysis of high-technology health services; (4) analysis of clinical engineering activities in Italy. The present situation and guidelines for the future, are outlined. In Italy there are no official positions for clinical engineers in public hospitals; however seven health-delivery institutions have established some activity in the field and a total of 15 engineers are involved in it. Despite the obvious advantage shown by the experinece of these pilot institutions, the field has serious difficulties in developing due to the policy, of the Ministry of Health and the consequent lack of positions. To reach the level of service provided in other European or North American countries, Italy, would need at least 500 clinical engineers and 2500 biomedical equipment technicians. However, the lack of professional opportunities does not encourage training activities in the field. IFMBE, 1990 Clinical engineering nationallicence Italy nationallicence Merletti R. Dip. di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 1029, Torino, Italy aut Bravar D. Ripart Apparecchiature, Sanit, USL n. 1, Trieste, Italy aut Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing Kluwer Academic Publishers 28/6(1990-11-01), 525-530 0140-0118 28:6<525 1990 28 11517 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442602 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442602 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Merletti R. Dip. di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 1029, Torino, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bravar D. Ripart Apparecchiature, Sanit, USL n. 1, Trieste, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing Kluwer Academic Publishers 28/6(1990-11-01), 525-530 0140-0118 28:6<525 1990 28 11517 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer