Human reliability assessment for medical devices based on failure mode and effects analysis and fuzzy linguistic theory

Safety Science

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 248-256

  Lin, Qing Lian ^a   Wang, Duo Jin ^a   Lin, Wen Guang ^b   Liu, Hu Chen ^c,d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Failure modes and effects analysis; Fuzzy linguistic; Human reliability analysis; Medical device safety; SHELL

Indexed keywords

FAILURE MODES AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DEVICES; SHELL;

LINGUISTICS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; DEVICE SAFETY; FAILURE MODE AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS; FUZZY LINGUISTIC THEORY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DEVICE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHELL MODEL; SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, ENVIRONMENT, LIVE WARE AND CENTRAL LIVE WARE MODEL; THEORY;

EID: 84884359507     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2013.08.022     Document Type: Article

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