The application of healthcare failure mode and effect analysis in reducing hospital infection risks
10.3969/j.issn.1671-332X.2025.06.013
- VernacularTitle:医疗失效模式与效应分析在降低医院感染风险中的应用
- Author:
Yao YAO
1
;
Guihua FAN
1
;
Shuying BI
1
;
Guangxu MAO
1
;
Yajie QIAN
1
;
Chunfeng FAN
1
Author Information
1. 扬州大学附属兴化市人民医院 江苏兴化 225700
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Risk management;
Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis;
Hand hygiene;
Cleaning;
Multi-drug resist-ant bacteria
- From:
Modern Hospital
2025;25(6):869-872,876
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To study the role of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis(HFMEA)in reducing the risk of healthcare-associated infection.Methods Using HFMEA to identify,analyze and evaluate the risks leading to hospital infec-tions,screening out the high-risk events of hospital infections,ultimately determining cleaning management,hand hygiene,and management of patients with multi-drug resistant bacteria as 3 failure modes,and identifying 9 items such as poor personnel ac-ceptance ability as potential failure causes,implementing risk control and intervention for them,and comparing the effects before and after the improvement.Results Except for the potential failure cause of weak awareness of hospital-acquired infections a-mong cleaning staff,the RPN values of the other eight potential failure causes showed significant differences after HFMEA inter-vention(P＜0.05).The compliance rate of hand hygiene,the cleaning qualification rate of cleaning staff were both improved,and the differences were statistically significant(P＜0.01).In terms of the management of patients with multi-drug resistant bac-teria,the implementation rate of isolation measures,the standardization of cleaning,the standardization of medical procedures,the compliance rate of hand hygiene and the qualification rate of accompanying education for caregivers all significantly increased(P＜0.05).Conclusion HFMEA can effectively control the risk of hospital-acquired infections to a certain extent and reduce the occurrence of hospital-acquired infection events.
