Three kinds of proactive risk analyses for health care.

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36(8):365-75 (2010) PMID 20860243

In health care, proactive risk assessment usually takes the form of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). An applied research firm, four community hospitals, and a community health care alliance in south-central Washington State--as members of the Tri-Cities Patient Safety Coalition (TCPSC)--used proactive risk assessment methods such as event tree analysis (ETA) and hazard identification to assess the risk of adverse events associated with a process or system.