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Traditional experience-based maintenance strategies often fail to capture the dynamic risk profiles of heterogeneous equipment, particularly in large healthcare institutions. Data-driven approaches may improve maintenance prioritization, yet evidence from real-world hospital deployment remains limited.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We developed and implemented a machine learning\u2013assisted priority evaluation system for medical equipment maintenance in a tertiary hospital. Separate priority assessment frameworks were established for preventive maintenance (PM) and corrective maintenance (CM), each incorporating domain-specific features and weighted scoring schemes. Multiple machine learning models, including logistic regression, decision tree, support vector machine, na\u00efve Bayes, and XGBoost, were trained and evaluated using a stratified training\u2013testing split. Model performance was assessed using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, and confusion matrices. The optimal model was deployed into the hospital maintenance workflow and evaluated in a parallel controlled implementation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 9,924 medical devices were included, comprising 8,967 devices with preventive maintenance (PM) records and 957 devices with corrective maintenance (CM) records. Devices were stratified into low-, medium-, and high-urgency groups using clustering-derived labels. Among the five machine learning algorithms evaluated, XGBoost achieved the best performance, with a testing accuracy of 0.9379 in the PM dataset and 0.8646 in the CM dataset. In the real-world deployment phase (2025.1.2\u20132025.12.25), 830 devices in the intervention campus and 849 devices in the control campus were compared. The intervention campus showed lower proportions of failures, recurrence, and unplanned maintenance events, and a lower overall maintenance cost ratio than the control campus (4.8% vs. 7.3%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study demonstrates the feasibility and practical value of deploying a machine learning\u2013assisted priority evaluation system for medical equipment maintenance in a real hospital environment. 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