The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
A Practical Guide to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health Care: Making the Most of the Team and Its Meetings
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Clinically Active Health Care Staff
The team must possess a highly detailed knowledge of the process under scrutiny to conduct FMEA. A successful FMEA team cannot, therefore, consist of only management and/or research staff. Although the inclusion of such staff can enhance the team, it is imperative that it centers around a core of clinically active health care staff who regularly perform the process. Furthermore, for the team to possess knowledge of the entirety of the process, it is vital that it contains health care staff from
How Many Team-Meeting Hours Are Required to Undertake FMEA?
Whereas numerous empirical articles highlight the time-consuming nature of FMEA, far fewer note the actual number of team hours needed to complete it. Practical-guidance articles also generally fail to provide estimates of, or even to discuss, the number of team hours needed for FMEA. However, to secure resources and executive backing for an FMEA study, recruit team members, and book meetings venues, it is vital to have an estimate of the requisite number of meeting hours at the study outset.
Conclusions
FMEA is generally acknowledged to be a useful addition to the tool kit available to health professionals for assessing and improving the safety of health care processes. Further, undertaking the FMEA procedure often serves to greatly increase staff members’ understanding of the process under scrutiny, particularly from the perspective of their colleagues, and thus to enhance multidisciplinary teamwork and communication. However, FMEA is a meticulous, time- and resource-intensive methodology,
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