Match each clinical safety intervention implemented by a healthcare facility to its corresponding category in the hierarchy of intervention effectiveness.
- Procuring specialized enteral feeding tubes that physically cannot be connected to standard intravenous ports.Forcing function
- Installing an electronic health record prompt that alerts the physician of a potential drug-allergy interaction before an order can be finalized.Automation and computerization
- Implementing a hospital-wide, pre-printed order set to manage acute asthma exacerbations in the emergency department.Standardization and simplification
- Distributing a memorandum to all nursing staff outlining the updated policy for two-identifier patient verification.Education and policy
- Assigning an additional pharmacist to conduct independent double-checks on all high-alert medication preparations.Redundancy
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The interventions map to the hierarchy of effectiveness from most effective (forcing functions) to least effective (education and policy).
The hierarchy of intervention effectiveness categorizes safety strategies from most to least reliable based on human factors engineering. System-level interventions like forcing functions are highly effective because they remove reliance on human memory by physically preventing an error. Automation and standardization are moderately effective as they streamline processes and provide warnings, but they can still be bypassed. Person-level interventions, such as redundancy (double-checks) and education (memorandums), are the least reliable because they depend on human vigilance, which is easily compromised by fatigue and distraction.
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Hierarchy of Intervention Effectiveness / Human Factors Engineering