Patient safety : the PROACT root cause analysis approach /
Robert J. Latino
- Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009
- xxii, 197 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
The need for reliability tools in healthcare -- Creating the management support for a proactive environment to succeed -- Failure classification -- Basic failure mode and effects analysis : the traditional approach -- Opportunity analysis (OA) : the modified approach -- Understanding why things go wrong -- The PROACT root cause analysis (RCA) methodology -- Ordering the analysis team -- Analyzing the data : introducing the logi tree -- Communicate findings and recommendations -- Tracking for results -- Automating proactive analyses : the utilization of the PROACT® suite software solution (version 3.0+) -- Case studies
Medical errors--Prevention Medical care--Quality control Health facilities$--Quality control. Medical Errors--prevention & control Health Facilities--organization & administration Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) Safety Management--organization & administration Systems Analysis