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Reducing failures in daily medical practice: Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis combined with computer simulation [PDF]
Ergonomics, 2021 This study proposes a risk analysis approach for complex healthcare processes that combines qualitative and quantitative methods to improve patient safety. We combine Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis with Computer Simulation (HFMEA-CS), to overcome widely recognised HFMEA drawbacks regarding the reproducibility and validity of the outcomes ...
Leeftink, A.G. +5 more
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Expanding healthcare failure mode and effect analysis: A composite proactive risk analysis approach [PDF]
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) is a systematic risk assessment method derived from high risk industries to prospectively examine complex healthcare processes. Like most methods, HFMEA has strengths and weaknesses. In this paper we provide a review of HFMEA's limitations and we introduce an expanded version of traditional HFMEA ...
Faiella, Giuliana +6 more
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Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Annals, 2021 Background: Healthcare statistics, issued by various international organizations, show that medical errors in health centers impose high costs on patients and hospitals and increase the rates of morbidity and mortality around the world. Due to the potential risks of cardiovascular diseases, the occurrence of any errors can potentially endanger the ...
Afshin Farhanchi +3 more
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An information fusion FMEA method to assess the risk of healthcare waste
Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 2021 Healthcare waste (HCW) management plays a vital role in the development of modern society. In HCW management, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a popular method to implement risk management for improving the quality of healthcare.
Linhan Ouyang +3 more
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Health impact (HI-FMEA) decision support application for hospital health technology management [PDF]
International Journal of Research in Industrial EngineeringThe research aims to create an innovative Healthcare Impact Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Hi-FMEA) framework approach that integrates patient safety in identifying and prioritizing critical failure modes in medical equipment and derive appropriate ...
David Mutia +3 more
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Biochemical test as an efficient system to improve safety in parenteral nutrition for premature infants [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2018 Objective: The biochemical test validation process of parenteral nutrition bags is described to verify the correct composition of critical compounds before its administration, as well as its impact on safety after two years since its implantation in a
Carlota Salazar-Santander +3 more
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Cogitare Enfermagem, 2023 Objective: to demonstrate the applicability of the Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis tool to analyze, preventively, the risks related to the process of insertion, maintenance, and removal of peripheral intravenous catheters.
Maryana da Silva Furlan +3 more
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A safety analysis approach to clinical workflows : application and evaluation [PDF]
, 2014 Clinical workflows are safety critical workflows as they have the potential to cause harm or death to patients. Their safety needs to be considered as early as possible in the development process.
Al-Qora’n, Lamis +4 more
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Physiological monitoring in the complex multimorbid heart failure patient - Conclusions. [PDF]
, 2019 Comorbidities are increasingly recognized as crucial components of the heart failure syndrome. Main specific challenges are polypharmacy, poor adherence to treatments, psychological aspects, and the need of monitoring after discharge.
Böhm, M +4 more
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A Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis on the Safety of Secondary Infusions [PDF]
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2012 Secondary infusions are a common and convenient method to administer intermittent infusion unattended through a single IV access using infusion pump technology. Previous studies have indicated that clinicians have a high frequency of committing operation errors while administering secondary infusions.
Rossini Ying Kwan Yue +2 more
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