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An outpatient oncology clinic is transitioning to a new electronic prescribing system for high-risk chemotherapeutic agents. To ensure patient safety, the medical director convenes a multidisciplinary team to systematically map out the new prescribing workflow. The goal is to proactively identify potential points of failure, evaluate the severity and likelihood of potential harm, and implement preventive safeguards before the new system goes live next month. Which of the following quality improvement methodologies is the most appropriate to achieve this goal?

  1. Failure mode and effects analysisCevap
  2. B
    Root cause analysis
  3. C
    Plan-do-study-act cycle
  4. D
    Lean methodology
  5. E
    Pareto analysis

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Failure mode and effects analysis
The scenario describes a prospective approach to patient safety, aiming to identify and mitigate risks before a new system is implemented. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is the correct methodology for this purpose. It is a systematic, proactive team-based process used to evaluate a workflow to identify where and how it might fail, and to assess the relative impact of different failures so that preventive safeguards can be established.

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1
Analyze the timing and goal of the clinical scenario.
The clinic is implementing a new system and wants to proactively identify potential points of failure before the system goes live.
Identifying whether the quality improvement effort is prospective (before an event) or retrospective (after an event) determines the correct methodology.
2
Match the goal with the appropriate quality improvement methodology.
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is specifically designed for prospective risk assessment.
FMEA involves mapping a process to find where it might fail, assessing the severity and likelihood of those failures, and implementing safeguards before an adverse event can occur.

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Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a prospective quality improvement methodology used to identify and mitigate potential points of failure in a system before they cause harm.
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