Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63(16):1528-1538. We report anticipated failure modes that occurred postimplementation despite the implementation of our recommended actions. Most of the listed failures ...

In order to proactively handle potential process or product errors before they occur in manufacturing or on a customer’s production line, many organizations implement a Failure Mode and Effects ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

Those of us who work with medical device software are well aware of the radiation therapy software disaster in the mid-1980s, in which patients received 100 times the intended dose of radiation due to ...

A multidisciplinary team was assembled to perform an FMEA of the i.v. medication administration process incorporating pump technology and to report its findings to the hospital performance-improvement ...