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Risk Assessment with FMEA: Preventing Failure Before It Happens
Analyse a process for failure points before a patient is harmed by one.
professional180 min6 lessons

What you'll learn
- Identify failure modes for each step of a described clinical process
- Apply severity, occurrence and detectability scoring to a failure mode
- Calculate and interpret a risk priority number
- Differentiate failure mode, cause and effect
- Prioritise identified risks for action using the effectiveness hierarchy
- Evaluate whether FMEA is the appropriate tool for a stated problem
Course content
6 modules · 6 lessons
1. Prospective Versus Retrospective
- Prospective Versus RetrospectivePreview30m
2. Scoping and Team
- Scoping and Team30m
3. Mapping to the Right Detail
- Mapping to the Right Detail30m
4. Failure Modes, Causes and Effects
- Failure Modes, Causes and Effects30m
5. Scoring and Prioritising
- Scoring and Prioritising30m
6. From Analysis to Change
- From Analysis to Change30m
