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Health care professionals around the world can use a proactive technique to reducing the risk of harm to individuals receiving care, treatment, and services. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health Care: Proactive Risk Reduction, Third Edition illustrates the FMEA method to proactively identify and manage potential risks to individuals in all health care settings. Your organization can adopt this proactive model to identify impending risks and develop a focal viewpoint of the causes and solutions to monitoring errors. This book includes the following: A logical, step-by-step guide through the FMEA process Processes that can be analyzed, re-designed and used by health care organizations worldwide How to prioritize critical factors of effects based on frequency or rarity How to conduct an analysis of functions, failure modes, effects, and causes in relationship to contributor factors How to implement and sustain continuous improvement