Science of Reliability for Patient Care 2016

Key Topics

• Defining failures
• Defining reliability
• Process reliability principles
• System reliability principles
• Reliability improvement begins with incidence reports
• Human reliability principles
• Methods for improving reliability
• Human Errors may be Unpreventable, Preventing Harm is an Innovation
• Perform Healthcare FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
• Identifying weak links and allocate higher reliability goals to them
• Fault tolerance
• Fault Tree Analysis for preventing harm to patients
• Reliability improvements in Emergency Department
• Protecting patients from hospital mistakes
• Validating the improvement for reliability

Who should Attend

• Hospital administrators
• Hospital senior management
• Nursing staff
• Doctors
• Radiology staff
• Clinical engineers
• Patient advocates
• Infection control staff