A novel approach for evaluating the risk of health care failure modes

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3967-3974

  Chang, Dong Shang ^a   Chung, Jenq Hann ^a   Sun, Kuo Lung ^a   Yang, Fu Chiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Failure mode and effects analysis; Health care; Medical error; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FAILURE MODE AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK; SLACK BASED MEASURE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867853388     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-012-9868-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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