Prevention is better: the case of the underutilized failure mode effect analysis in patient safety

Prospective hazard analysis methodologies, like failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), have been tried and tested in the engineering industry and are more recently gaining momentum in healthcare. Considering FMEA’s evidence based successes, this commentary makes the case that healthcare is under...

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Autores principales: Goodrum, Lewis, Varkey, Prathibha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28239449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-016-0131-2
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spelling pubmed-53190992017-02-24 Prevention is better: the case of the underutilized failure mode effect analysis in patient safety Goodrum, Lewis Varkey, Prathibha Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Prospective hazard analysis methodologies, like failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), have been tried and tested in the engineering industry and are more recently gaining momentum in healthcare. Considering FMEA’s evidence based successes, this commentary makes the case that healthcare is underutilizing the methodology by relying on retrospective hazard analysis. Healthcare leaders should determine where prospective hazard analysis principles could be better built into care delivery planning and processes that will enhance patient safety. BioMed Central 2017-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5319099/ /pubmed/28239449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-016-0131-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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