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Risk assessment of failure during transitioning from in-centre to home haemodialysis

BMC Nephrology, 2022
Background Introducing a de-novo home haemodialysis (HHD) program often raises safety concerns as errors could potentially lead to serious adverse events.
Sabrina-Wong-Peixin Haroon, Titus-Wai-Leong Lau, Gan Liang Tan, Eugene-Hern Choon Liu, Soh Heng Hui, Siao Luan Lim, Diana Santos, Robyn Hodgson, Lindsay Taylor, Jia Neng Tan, FH HHD, Andrew Davenport   +11 more
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Enhancing System Safety and Reliability through Integrated FMEA and Game Theory: A Multi-Factor Approach

Safety, 2023
This study aims to address the limitations of traditional Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) in managing safety and reliability within complex systems characterized by interdependent critical factors. We propose an integrated framework that combines
Mohammad Yazdi
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Caesarean section for non-medical reasons at term [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Caesarean section rates are progressively rising in many parts of the world. One suggested reason is increasing requests by women for caesarean section in the absence of clear medical indications, such as placenta praevia, HIV infection ...
Bewley, Birchard, Bost, Chippington Derrick, Clement, Dodd, Dodd, Farrell, Francome, Gamble, Gaskin, Goer, Hall, Hall, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hemminki, Hofmeyr, Kelleher, Kirby, Klein, Lavender, Lilford, Lowdon, Macfarlane, Madar, Martin, McAleese, Mccourt, Minkoff, Neilson, Paterson-Brown, Paterson-Brown, Pence, Penna, Rortveit, Ryding, Serena, Smith, Smith, Sreevidya, Sultan, Sultan, Sultan, Sultan, Thomas, Treffers, Turnbull, Wagner, Wen, Whyte, Wolman   +52 more
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Healthcare failure mode and effects analysis and cost‑minimization analysis of three pharmaceutical services.

Farmacia hospitalaria : organo oficial de expresion cientifica de la Sociedad Espanola de Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2021
The main purpose of this study was to analyze and compare three different medication delivery methods used by the outpatient care unit of a hospital pharmacy, namely health center collection, community pharmacy collection and home delivery. The secondary purpose was to compare the economic cost of those methods for the Spanish health service.A failure ...
Álvaro Caballero-Romero, Sergio Fernández, Ana Belén Morillo, Mariana Zaragoza-Rascón, Catalina Jaramillo-Pérez, Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio   +5 more
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Prognostic value of echocardiographic indices of left atrial morphology and function in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease [PDF]

, 2018
Background: The prognostic relevance of left atrial (LA) morphological and functional variables, including those derived from speckle tracking echocardiography (STE), has been little investigated in veterinary medicine.
Baron Toaldo, Marco, Cipone, Mario, Contiero, Barbara, Diana, Alessia, Guglielmini, Carlo, Pelle, Nazzareno G., Romito, Giovanni   +6 more
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Smart Device for the Determination of Heart Rate Variability in Real Time [PDF]

, 2017
This work presents a first approach to the design, development, and implementation of a smart device for the real-time measurement and detection of alterations in heart rate variability (HRV).
Barbarov-Rostán, Gerardo, Galdámez-Cruz, Omar, Giorgio Pennazza (Coordinador), Naranjo Hernández, David, Reina Tosina, Luis Javier, Roa Romero, Laura María   +5 more
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Healthcare waste hazards assessment using EWGM-FMEA: Case study in Oman

Cogent Engineering, 2023
In the last years, particularly after Covid-19, Health care waste (HCW) has increased significantly due to the increasing population and number of healthcare organizations.
Sahar ALMashaqbeh, Yousef Nasser ALKhamisi   +1 more
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Risk Reduction of Healthcare Workers’ Exposure to COVID-19 using Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

International Journal of Research and Review, 2021
Background: The exposure to COVID-19 by staff has a major impact on healthcare system. Objective: identify potential failures related to the exposure of HCWs to COVID-19, evaluate the potential causes and effects, and the actions to mitigate the risk of exposure.
Humberto Guanche Garcell, Farid Ahmad Sohail, Tania M Fernandez Hernandez   +2 more
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Fast and slow domino regimes in transient network dynamics [PDF]

, 2017
It is well known that the addition of noise to a multistable dynamical system can induce random transitions from one stable state to another. For low noise, the times between transitions have an exponential tail and Kramers' formula gives an expression ...
Ashwin, Peter, Creaser, Jennifer, Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira   +2 more
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Prospective risk assessments of patient safety events related to drug shortages in hospitals: Three actor-level perspectives

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2021
Background: The increasing number of drug shortages (DSs) worldwide calls for more proactive solutions to prevent the negative impacts of DSs on patient care.
Joo Hanne Poulsen, Marianne Hald Clemmensen, Lotte Stig Nørgaard, Peter Dieckmann   +3 more
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