A Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) for a New

Multiple Choice

A Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) for a new bar-coding system is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team. List the steps of the HFMEA in the correct order.

A) Identifying prevention strategies
B) Endorsing action plans for implementation
C) Assessing risk points within the process steps
D) Flowcharting the steps of the process being studied
E) Designing out the most critical of the potential failures
F) Recommending process improvements for prevention of the failures
G) Ranking key risk points in terms of their impact on the potential failure of the system
H) Reporting action plans for implementing prevention strategies to the enterprise leaders