Augmenting health care failure modes and effects analysis with simulation

Autor: Anja U. Mitchell, Marlene Mohr, Peter Dieckmann, Doris Østergaard, Ditte S. Nielsen
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 9(1)
ISSN: 1559-713X
Popis: This study explores whether simulation plays a role in health care failure mode and effects analysis (HFMEA); it does this by evaluating whether additional data are found when a traditional HFMEA is augmented with simulation. Two multidisciplinary teams identified vulnerabilities in a process by brainstorming, followed by simulation. Two means of adding simulation were investigated as follows: just simulating the process and interrupting the simulation between substeps of the process. By adding simulation to a traditional HFMEA, both multidisciplinary teams identified additional data that were relevant for deeper analysis. The study indicates that simulation has a role in HFMEA. Both ways of using simulation seemed feasible, and our results are not conclusive in selecting one over the other.
Databáze: OpenAIRE