Use of failure mode and effects analysis for proactive identification of communication and handoff failures from organ procurement to transplantation

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 208-214

  Steinberger, Dina M ^a   Douglas, Stephen V ^a   Kirschbaum, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

CAUSALITY; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL ERRORS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WISCONSIN; WORKLOAD;

EID: 73349084666     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152692480901900303     Document Type: Article

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