A Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) for a new bar-coding system is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team. List the steps of the HFMEA in the correct order.
A) Identifying prevention strategies
B) Endorsing action plans for implementation
C) Assessing risk points within the process steps
D) Flowcharting the steps of the process being studied
E) Designing out the most critical of the potential failures
F) Recommending process improvements for prevention of the failures
G) Ranking key risk points in terms of their impact on the potential failure of the system
H) Reporting action plans for implementing prevention strategies to the enterprise leaders

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The HFMEA is conducted by an interdisciplinary team of professionals who own the process being studied and is facilitated by someone with knowledge and skills in quality improvement tools. The HFMEA begins with flowcharting the steps of the process being studied. The team assesses risk points within the process steps, and these key risk points are ranked in terms of their impact on the potential failure of the system. Scores for severity and probability are calculated to give a hazard score to the identified breakdown, and detectability of the failure mode is factored into the analysis of its impact on the overall process. The team then designs out the most critical of the potential failures and recommends process improvements for prevention of the failures. Once these prevention strategies are identified, action plans for implementing them are reported to the enterprise leaders and endorsed for implementation.

A Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) for a New