Using failure mode and effects analysis to reduce patient safety risks related to the dispensing process in the community pharmacy setting. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Using failure mode and effects analysis to reduce patient safety risks related to the dispensing process in the community pharmacy setting. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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Using failure mode and effects analysis to reduce patient safety risks related to the dispensing process in the community pharmacy setting.

Stojkovic T, Marinkovic V, Jaehde U, Manser T. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2017;13:1159-1166.

Failure mode and effect analysis is a tool commonly used to proactively assess the reliability of health care processes and workflows. The authors describe the application of failure mode and effect analysis to identify failure modes in the dispensing of medications in the community pharmacy setting.

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