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Patrice L Spath

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PubMed2004

Practical guide for improving performance.

Research has established that health care is not error free. The question facing perioperative units, as well as all health care services, is how to minimize the human factors that impact quality and safety. This two-part series on performance improvement in perioperative services was intended to help answer this question. Achieving performance excellence starts with a supportive work culture. The human issues of teamwork, communication, and leadership are crucial to achieving performance excellence. Next, perioperative caregivers must accept that all people make mistakes so systems and processes can be designed to be more "forgiving" of errors. Last, a planned and systematic approach must be used to measure, analyze, and improve performance. Successful implementation of performance improvement calls for strong partnerships between physicians, managers, and staff members. Performance excellence requires that everyone work together to ensure that perioperative care is safe, effective, appropriate, customer focused, and efficient.

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PubMed2003

Using failure mode and effects analysis to improve patient safety.

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) (ie, prospective risk analysis) involves close examination of high-risk processes to identify needed improvements that will reduce the chance of unintended adverse events. This risk assessment process is used in other industries (ie, manufacturing, aviation) to evaluate system safety. Health care organizations now are using it to evaluate and improve the safety of patient care activities. The FMEA process promotes systematic thinking about the safety of patient care processes (ie, what could go wrong, what needs to be done to prevent failures.) The steps of the FMEA process are described and applied to a high-risk perioperative process.

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PubMed2003

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Consumers are demanding trust, integrity and honesty from health care leaders and providers. CEOs and physicians need new ways to work with their colleagues and patients.

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