Augmenting health care failure modes and effects analysis with simulation.
Nielsen DS, Dieckmann P, Mohr M, et al. Augmenting health care failure modes and effects analysis with simulation. Simul Healthc. 2014;9(1):48-55. doi:10.1097/SIH.0b013e3182a3defd.
Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a widely used tool for identifying latent safety hazards. Traditional FMEA relies on brainstorming among team members to detect failure modes (the ways in which a clinical process might fail). This study found that direct observation of a simulated clinical process improved the FMEA by facilitating identification of different types and a greater number of failure modes.