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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/learn-from-defects-fac-guide.html
July 01, 2023 - Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.
Probabilistic Risk Assessment.
Causal Tree Worksheet. … Sensemaking calls for staff to work through the failure, identifying the latent and active contributors … the failure. … On this worksheet, you see both a failure and a recovery side. … Culture, such as a failure because of inappropriate deference to physicians.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/woods2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Medium- to high-risk failure modes and failure
mode causes were cataloged. … FMEAs that define how “critical” a failure might be are sometimes referred
to as Failure Modes and Effects … and failure mode causes
3. … Category Failure Mode Summary Failure Mode FMEA
1
FMEA
2
FMEA
3
FMEA
4
FMEA
5
Total … Event Definition: Make one failure mode and one failure cause a single entry
4.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lo-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Keywords: hepatotoxicity, acute liver failure, liver injury
2. … Classification, etiology, and considerations of outcome in acute liver failure. … Acute liver failure in the United States. Semin Liver Dis 2003;23:217-26.
7. … Reuben A, Koch DG, Lee WM, Acute Liver Failure Study G. … Thrombocytopenia in acute liver
failure (ALF): A marker of multi-organ system failure and poor prognosis
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/heart-failure-hospital.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Heart Failure Admissions Down but Hospital Deaths Higher in First Year of COVID-19 - Infographic
This … Heart Failure Admissions Down but
Hospital Deaths Higher in First Year
of COVID-19
Key: API = Asian
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/carecoordination/measure1.html
June 01, 2018 - Measures of transitions of care include:
Hospitalized adult patients with heart failure who were … failure who were given complete written discharge instructions, by sex and race/ethnicity, 2005-2013 … Importance: Heart failure is the most frequent hospital discharge diagnosis in the older adults. … Trends:
From 2005 to 2013, the percentage of hospitalized adult patients with heart failure who … For heart failure and COPD, low share is defined as ≤7% and high as ≥29%.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/131-ss-swiss-cheese.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Review the “Swiss cheese model” of system failure. … Prevention | Surgical Services
The Swiss Cheese Model
Types of Failures: Swiss Cheese Model1
active failure … Consequences
A study by Tucker found that nurses encounter almost one system failure every hour (6.5 … The Swiss cheese model depicts system failure.
Multiple factors contribute to patient outcomes. … Learning from failure in health care: frequent opportunities, pervasive barriers.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_premortem.pptx
December 01, 2017 - The idea is to brainstorm for possible failure points in order to address them.
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Preparing To Lead1 … to sustain improvements
Spend 10 minutes recording the reasons that could cause this failure
Ask your … Use the scale shown here to rank your team’s concerns about each failure.
9
Premortem Exercise
Step … ASK:
What can your team implement to avoid or mitigate these failure points? … SAY:
Target potential risks for failure in order to achieve success in sustainment.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/kupka-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Determining the potential effect on the patient should the failure occur.
6. … Developing strategies so that:
a. failure can be prevented;
b. the rate of failure can be reduced; … Failure-mode and effects analysis in improving a drug
distribution system. … Failure Mode and Effect Analysis: An Application in Reducing Risk in Blood
Transfusion. … Failure Mode And Effect AnalysisTM: A Technique
to Prevent Chemotherapy Errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/readmission-rates.pdf
June 02, 2025 - ,
infection, or burn
patients with these common
diagnoses was readmitted:
25% Congestive heart failure … 22% Schizophrenia
22% Acute and unspecified
renal failure
patients with these less frequent … readmissions than other payers
Procedure: Amputation of lower extremity Diagnosis: Congestive heart failure
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part2-cvd.html
June 01, 2018 - Importance: Early detection and treatment of high blood pressure can prevent heart failure, kidney failure … Admissions for Congestive Heart Failure
Adult admissions for congestive heart failure per 100,000 population … Importance: Racial disparities in care for congestive heart failure have been observed. … Trends: From 2002 to 2013, the rate of admission for congestive heart failure among adults decreased … Congestive heart failure.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/holl-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
The Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis … For each
failure mode identified, the cause (e.g., human factor, equipment failure) was assessed. … The frequency of
each failure mode was estimated as well as the consequence of each failure mode. … chance of failure mode
C1 Little Little impact on the chance of failure mode
C2 Some Some impact on … Failure Mode Effects Analysis.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/home-mechanical-ventilators-refinement.pdf
October 01, 2017 - the home through a noninvasive
interface for the population of patients with chronic respiratory failure … Draft analytic framework for home mechanical ventilators
Background
Chronic respiratory failure … Many disease
conditions may contribute to chronic respiratory failure including, but not limited to … Mechanical ventilation is used to treat chronic respiratory failure. … There is considerable variability regarding the continuum of severity of chronic respiratory failure.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/premortem-tool.docx
January 01, 2017 - The team then develops plans to mitigate these reasons for failure. … · “Spend the next 10 minutes writing down all the reasons you believe this failure occurred. … The team will then develop plans to mitigate these reasons for failure. … Please spend the next 10 minutes writing down all the reasons you believe this failure occurred. … REASONS FOR FAILURE
What could have caused this?
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/early-mobility-icu-slides.html
February 01, 2017 - Early activity is feasible and safe in respiratory failure patients. … Early activity is feasible and safe in respiratory failure patients. … Early activity is feasible and safe in respiratory failure patients. … Early activity is feasible and safe in respiratory failure patients. … Early activity is feasible and safe in respiratory failure patients.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load2.html
August 01, 2024 - A hospitalist is admitting a patient with presumed new heart failure from a busy emergency department … They also begin to recall from their long-term memory the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure … Finally, they use germane cognitive load to pull in congestive heart failure diagnostic schemas to compare … this patient’s clinical presentation with their typical representation of a patient with heart failure … during the diagnostic reasoning process to accurately diagnose this patient with decompensated heart failure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weingart-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Key Words: failure modes and effects analysis, oral
medication, antineoplastic drug, medication error … We proposed to convene an
interdisciplinary team to identify, analyze, and prioritize failure modes … high-priority targets based on their likelihood of failure, severity, and
detectability. … They identified the causes and effects of each failure mode and ranked each failure
mode based on its … Each failure mode was
prioritized by using a weighted voting technique.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/136-ss-premortem-tool.docx
April 01, 2025 - Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Projects often fail, and many factors may contribute to this failure … interventions that can be included in the intervention that will mitigate these possible reasons for failure … Reasons for Failure:
“What Could Have Caused This?” … Level of Concern:
1 (Lowest Concern) to
5 (Highest Concern)
Action Steps To Prevent Failure:
“What
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-woods_79.pdf
May 30, 2008 - Failure events in Risk Bins I and II become the focus for targeted attention. … of failure mode
CP3 Significant Significant impact on the chance of failure mode
CP4 Certain Almost … In this study, these groups are called “failure
categories.” … Representative cases are then selected from the failure categories. … Failure modes and
effects analysis in healthcare.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/Device_Dashboard_Data_2024.xlsx
January 01, 2024 - The tables include the relative frequencies by type of device, by device defect, failure or use error … Description
Device Event Description Percentage Frequency
Unknown 57.5% 22,873
Device defect or failure … , including HIT 29.6% 11,791
Use error 8.9% 3,534
Combination or interaction of device defect or failure … Percentage No Harm Frequency Harm Percentage Harm Frequency
Unknown 95.1% 5,134 4.7% 253
Device defect or failure … 92.5% 3,604 7.2% 263
Use error 87.5% 1,255 13.0% 189
Combination or interaction of device defect or failure
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/learn-from-defects-slides.html
July 01, 2023 - Discovery Form
Safety Issues Worksheet
Root Cause Analysis
Learn From Defects Form
Failure … identification
Defects
Human/active failure
Latent/system conditions
Ways to identify … defects or failure
Staff Safety Assessment
Status of Safety Issues Worksheet
Discovery … Form
Root Cause Analysis
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Probabilistic Risk Assessment … The left side of the tree is labeled the failure side, and a small part of the right side is labeled