Arobust debate is under way on various listservs and in professional journals about the standard requirement advanced by some regulating agencies and accreditation organizations that preventive maintenance (PM) intervals follow the equipment manufacturer’s recommendations. The most influential of these is the language contained in the Interpretive Guidelines accompanying the regulations of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Malcolm G. Ridgway (2009) studied this question.