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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
Risk Assessment with FMEA: Preventing Failure Before It Happens

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