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

question 7

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

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