Failure mode and effects analysis: a comparison of two common risk prioritisation methods.

Lisa M McElroy; Rebeca Khorzad; Anna P Nannicelli; Alexandra R Brown; Daniela P Ladner; Jane L Holl

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Failure mode and effects analysis: a comparison of two common risk prioritisation methods.

May 4, 2016

McElroy LM, Khorzad R, Nannicelli AP, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016;25(5):329-336.

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Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a human factors engineering method used to examine a process in health care to identify potential safety risks. Comparing a traditional resource-intensive FMEA with a simplified version, this analysis found that the simplified method identified risks accurately. These results should encourage more widespread use of this more feasible version of FMEA.

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