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Decreasing Surgical Specimen-Handling Errors: A Network Quality Improvement Journey

Patient Safety
# Background Surgical specimen handling is a complex, multidisciplinary process that involves ordering, collecting, labeling, preserving, transporting, testing, and reporting results so a patient receives a diagnosis or treatment plan.
Sara Angelilli, Lisa Feathers, Michelle McGonigal   +2 more
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Identification of priorities for medication safety in the neonatal intensive care unit via failure mode and effect analysis [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Neonatology, 2016
Prevention of medication errors in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is of paramount importance due to age-specific and physiological conditions of neonates.
Ali Vafaee Najar, Hassan Ghane, Hossein Ebrahimipour, Golam Abbas Nouri, Bita Dadpour   +4 more
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Standardised concentrations of morphine infusions for nurse/patient-controlled analgesia use in children

BMC Anesthesiology, 2019
Background Standardizing concentrations of intravenous infusions enables pre-preparation and is effective in improving patient safety by avoiding large deviations from the prescribed concentration that can occur when infusions are made individually in ...
Asia N Rashed, Cate Whittlesea, Caroline Davies, Ben Forbes, Stephen Tomlin   +4 more
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Engineering Value in Healthcare: Applying Failure Modes and Effects Analysis to Value Based Purchasing

Health Economics & Outcome Research: Open Access, 2017
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the hospital Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program in 2012, providing a definition and structure for measuring value in hospital-based healthcare services. Under this new program, CMS withholds a percentage of reimbursement from each participating hospital.
Amy Cress, Lee Revere, Osama Mikhail, Lisa Pompeii, Debora Simmons   +4 more
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Fuzzy adaptive resonance theory failure mode effect analysis non-healthcare setting for infectious disease: review [PDF]

Fuzzy adaptive resonance theory (ART) is an ART network that is developed as one of the alternative methods to evaluate risk priority number (RPN) in failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA).
Mohamed Basri, Hazrul, Chee Shee, Chai, Samjun, Aysha, Zulhilmi Firdaus Rosli, Mohd., Kipli, Kuryati, Lias, Kasumawati   +5 more
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Combining failure mode and functional resonance analyses in healthcare settings

, 2012
Socio-technical systems rely on technological artefacts as well as human and professional practices in order to achieve organisational safety. From an organisational viewpoint of analysis, different safety barriers are often put in place in order to ...
Sujan, Mark-Alexander, Mark-Alexander Sujan, Felici, Massimo, Massimo Felici   +3 more
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Competency Mentoring Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) as Effort for Early Detection of Healthcare Service Problems at RSUD Sadikin

Warta Pengabdian Andalas
Hospitals are not systematically designed to detect service errors as in non-healthcare products, thus increasing risks to patient safety. RSUD Sadikin in Pariaman City, which has been operating for only seven years, has not yet established mechanisms ...
Adila Kasni Astiena, Rizanda Machmud, Rima Semiarty, Yuniar Lestari, Firdawati, Husna Yetti, Rosfita Rasyid, Ida Rahmah Burhan, Hardisman, Abdiana, Zurayya Fadilla, Nelmi Silvia, Anung Respati, Dyanti Oktalina   +13 more
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Evaluation of the risk of occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs in healthcare sector: part II – the application of the FMECA method to compare manual vs automated preparation

Arhiv za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju
Healthcare workers handling antineoplastic drugs (ADs) in preparation units run the risk of occupational exposure to contaminated surfaces and associated mutagenic, teratogenic, and oncogenic effects of those drugs.
Dugheri Stefano, Cappelli Giovanni, Squillaci Donato, Rapi Ilaria, Fanfani Niccolò, Dori Fabrizio, Cecchi Michele, Sordi Viola, Ghiori Andrea, Mucci Nicola   +9 more
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Development application of FMEA risk assessment model for indoor air pollutants in healthcare organizations: Focus on suspended particles and bioaerosols in hospitals

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This study aimed to develop the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Decision Matrix Risk Assessment (DMRA) technique for the first time to assess risks associated with particulate matter (PM) and bioaerosol transmission in hospitals.
Mahbubeh Tangestani, Ahmad Jonidi Jafari, Majid Kermani, Roshanak Rezaei Kalantary   +3 more
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Applying Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in the Improvement of Examination Safety of Patients in Radiology Department

, 2014
Background and Purpose: With the advancement in healthcare standards, an increasing number of medical errors have been reported in radiology departments. In this study, we applied a proactive tool, Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (HFMEA), to
Wang, Chun-Chieh
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