AuthorLatino, Robert J
TitlePatient safety [electronic resource] : the PROACT root cause analysis approach / Robert J. Latino
Imprint Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2008
Connect tohttp://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781420087284
Descript 192 p

CONTENT

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 PROACTª suite software solution (version 3.0) -- Case histories


SUBJECT

  1. Medical errors -- Prevention
  2. Medical care -- Quality control
  3. Health facilities -- Quality control
  4. Electronic books.