Latino, Robert J.

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

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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