Modified Early Warning System: Quality Improvement with the Help of Healthcare Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
Salam Ahmad Samim1, Ankit Singh1, Priya Ravi2
1Hospital and Healthcare Management, Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Pune, India.
Abstract:
Introduction: Hospitals struggle to implement MEWS. This study aims to improve MEWS implementation in the studied hospital.Objective: Improve the implementation of MEWS with the help of HFMEA.Materials: HFMEA together with training is used to improve the implementation.Results: The pre-intervention RPN got reduced from 1558 to 516 in the post-implementation phase.Application: This demonstrates improvement in the implementation of MEWS with the help of HFMEA, this study design can be widely used.Conclusion: The HFMEA is an effective tool to use for the improvement of MEWS implementation by the hospital nurses.
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