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Failure Mode Effect Analysis in Healthcare - Preventing An Error before any Harm is Done

Apollo Medicine, 2004
Apollo Medicine, Vol.1, September 2004 FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a proactive tool, technique and quality method that enables the identification and prevention of process or product failures before they occur. It is a systematic approach of addressing what could fail in the process, why it might fail, how badly it might fail, how ...
Umesh Gupta
exaly   +2 more sources

Failure mode and effects analysis applied to central venous catheter placement

BMJ Open Quality
Despite diligent efforts, complications continue to occur during the placement of central venous catheters (CVCs). Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis has been promoted as a process improvement tool and this review describes the strategic ...
Daniel Harwood, Bruno Maranhao, James R Duncan, Ellen Wertenberger, Jacob Grant, Mona Ostman   +5 more
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Using the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Tool to Improve the Automatic Stop Order Process [PDF]

Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Introduction Automatic stop orders (ASOs) in computerized prescription order entry (CPOE) systems predefine the length of treatment. This can improve resource use for select therapies (e.g., empirical antibiotics).
Ghada Hussain Al Mardawi, Rajkumar Rajendram, Arwa Balharith, Abdulaziz Alomaim   +3 more
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Adaptive Failure Identification for Healthcare Risk Analysis and Its Application on E-Healthcare [PDF]

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2014
To satisfy the requirement for diverse risk preferences, we propose a generic risk priority number (GRPN) function that assigns a risk weight to each parameter such that they represent individual organization/department/process preferences for the ...
Kuo-Chung Chu, Lun-Ping Hung
doaj   +2 more sources

Medication Error Prevention Using Healthcare Failure Mode And Effect Analysis At Clinical Pharmacy Installation

Jurnal Riset Kesehatan
Medication error is the second most common patient safety incident worldwide. Medication errors can be defined as unintentional failures in medication services that have the potential to cause harm to patients.
Salsabilla Kaulika Rinalda Putri Giri, Masyitoh Basabih, Basrin Harsono Sigalingging   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Challenging cases in infection prevention and control: proceedings from SHEA Spring 2025 [PDF]

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Hospital epidemiologists and infection prevention professionals are frequently required to make high-stakes decisions in complex clinical scenarios where evidence-based guidance is limited or absent.
Jessica Seidelman, Tsun Sheng N. Ku, Anna LaFountain, Curtis J. Donskey, Edoabasi McGee, Rachel Pryor   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Revised risk priority number in failure mode and effects analysis model from the perspective of healthcare system

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018
Methodology of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is known as an important risk assessment tool and accreditation requirement by many organizations. For prioritizing failures, the index of "risk priority number (RPN)" is used, especially for its ease and subjective evaluations of occurrence, the severity and the detectability of each failure.
Fatemeh Rezaei, Mohmmad H Yarmohammadian, Abbas Haghshenas, Ali Fallah, Masoud Ferdosi   +4 more
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Bibliometric Analysis of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Research

JMMR (Jurnal Medicoeticolegal dan Manajemen Rumah Sakit), 2023
Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) has been widely used as a proactive risk assessment for healthcare processes since its development in 2001. This study performs a bibliometric analysis of published papers on HFMEA to map its utilization and evolutionary nuances.
Ariadne Aulia, Elsye Maria Rosa
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Analysis of Failure Modes in Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery Using the Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) Technique

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, Zohreh Rahimi, Ehsan Saghehei, Farshad Farhani Deljoo   +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, Yige Zhu, Wei Zheng, Lin Yan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source