Risk assessment of failure during transitioning from in-centre to home haemodialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Introducing a de-novo home haemodialysis (HHD) program often raises safety concerns as errors could potentially lead to serious adverse events. Despite the complexity of performing haemodialysis at home without the supervision of healthcare staff, HHD has a good safety record. We aim to pre-emptively identify and reduce the risks to our new HHD program by risk assessment and using failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to identify potential defects in the design and planning of HHD.

Methods

We performed a general risk assessment of failure during transitioning from in-centre to HHD with a failure mode and effects analysis focused on the highest areas of failure. We collaborated with key team members from a well-established HHD program and one HHD patient. Risk a

SUBMITTER: Haroon SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9768953 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature