Patient safety
Subtitle: the PROACT root cause analysis approach
By: Robert J. Latino.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420087277
Subjects: 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
Notes: "A CRC title."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The need for reliability tools in healthcare; title: Creating the management support for a proactive environment to succeed; title: Failure classification; title: Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA); title: Opportunity analysis (OA); title: Understanding why things go wrong : root cause analysis (RCA) overview; title: Preserve event data; title: Ordering the analysis team; title: Analyzing the data : introducing the logic tree; title: Communicate findings and recommendations; title: Tracking for bottom line results; title: Automating proactive analyses: the utilization of the PROACT® suite software solution (version 3.0); title: Case histories.