An applied research firm collaborated with staff at three community hospitals to apply Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to reduce risk from several high-risk healthcare processes. This included medication ordering and delivery, X-Ray labelling, blood transfusion, prevention of wrong site surgery, prevention of patient falls and antibiotic IV administration. The collaborating team developed its own successful FMECA approach and an eight-step procedure to gather data, conduct FMECA sessions, identify medical process weaknesses and risk reduction measures.
Revised: August 27, 2009 |
Published: January 12, 2006
Citation
Coles G.A. 2006.A Procedure for Using FMECA to Assess High-Risk Healthcare Processes (PSAM-0266). In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management: PSAM 8, May12-18, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana, edited by MG Stamatelatos and HS Blackman. New York, New York:ASME Press.PNNL-SA-46006.