Applicability of healthcare failure mode and effects analysis to healthcare epidemiology: Evaluation of the sterilization and use of surgical instruments

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1014-1019

  Linkin, Darren R ^a,b,c   Sausman, Caroline ^b   Santos, Lilly ^b   Lyons, Clarence ^b   Fox, Catherine ^b   Aumiller, Linda ^b   Esterhai, John ^a,b   Pittman, Beverly ^b   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c 114 Blockley Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENT; ANALYTIC METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTHCARE FAILURE MODE AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; CROSS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERRORS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERILIZATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 25444490100     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/433190     Document Type: Review

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