Book Description

Your organization needs to conduct and analyze at least one high-risk process per year to comply with the JCAHO's Improving Organization Performance standard PI.3.20. The Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive process that helps you comply with this standard. It allows you to reduce risk-in a process, system, and ultimately your organization-so you can protect both patients and staff from the danger of medical errors before they occur. Your one-stop guide to conducting FMEAs Unfortunately, hospitals across the country continue to struggle with the practicality of this process and are unable to translate theory into reality. The good news? Our new book Failure Modes and Effects Analysis: Building Safety into Everyday Practice will walk you step-by-step through the FMEA process by using case studies that encompass the most problematic areas: blood transfusions, medication use, patient suicide, wrong-site surgery, and delay in treatment. Taking your FMEA to the next level Many of our customers who purchased our best-selling book, Step-by-Step Guide to Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, published in May 2002, learned the best way to conduct an FMEA. This new book takes this PI process to the next level by providing in-depth case studies, real examples, and practical tools! We've done the work for you by studying how other organizations have analyzed their own high-risk areas using an FMEA, and providing you with this information in an easy-to-read case study format. Sample FMEAs, charts, and tools! You'll receive tools including sample FMEAs, flowcharts of each process, and tables to indicate your risk-reduction efforts. The sample FMEAs highlight the potential failure modes and demonstrate how to rate the likelihood of each error, the severity of the outcome, and how to prioritize your improvement efforts to prevent medical errors. Take a look below to see how each sample FMEA will help you with your FMEA process