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Chapter 21. Health Care Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Sections:
Failure Analysis, Human Error and FMEA, Applying FMEA to Medication Error Prevention, Learning about Potential Failure Modes from Reported Errors, Conclusion, References, Part II: An Application of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, An Application of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, References, Part III: Veterans Health Administration Approach to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Veterans Health Administration Approach to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, The VA Experience, Sidebar: Tips for Performing HFMEA, References, Additional Readings.

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failure modes and effects analysis.

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Introduction to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

J. W. Senders and S. J. Senders

The purpose of failure mode analysis (FMA) is to discover the potential risks in a product or system by identifying all the ways in which it might fail. FMA can be used not only to predict failures but also to analyze why they occur. The term failure mode may refer to specific types of failure (e.g., fractures, burns, or deviations from expected values) or to degrees of failure (e.g., catastrophic, partial, or minimal).

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