Patient safety : the PROACT root cause analysis approach /

Offers a perspective on patient care from outside the healthcare industry and culture. Challenging perceptions about Root Cause Analysis (RCA), this book provides a fresh approach that includes tools such as FMEA and OA which help quantify and prioritize events which deserve the attention of true RC...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Latino, Robert J.
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2008.
Subjects:	Medical errors > Prevention. Medical care > Quality control. Health facilities > Quality control. Outcome assessment (Medical care) System analysis. Medical Errors > prevention & control Quality Assurance, Health Care Treatment Outcome Outcome Assessment, Health Care. Health Facility Administration Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care Safety Management > organization & administration Systems Analysis Soins médicaux > Qualité > Contrôle. Équipements sanitaires > Qualité > Contrôle. Évaluation des résultats (Soins médicaux) Analyse de systèmes. systems analysis. System analysis Health facilities > Quality control Medical care > Quality control Medical errors > Prevention Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The need for reliability tools in healthcare
Creating the management support for a proactive environment to succeed
Failure classification
Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
Opportunity analysis (OA)
Understanding why things go wrong : root cause analysis (RCA) overview
Preserve event data
Ordering the analysis team
Analyzing the data : introducing the logic tree
Communicate findings and recommendations
Tracking for bottom line results
Automating proactive analyses: the utilization of the PROACT? suite software solution (version 3.0)
Case histories.