Strategies and tips for maximizing failure mode and effect analysis in your organization.

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Strategies and tips for maximizing failure mode and effect analysis in your organization.

March 27, 2005

Chicago, IL: American Society of Healthcare Risk Management; 2002.

The implementation and application of proactive risk assessment is reviewed. In that context, the authors discuss evidentiary protection and discoverability of information. Risk managers provide pearls from their experience, applying failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).

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