Learning from Defects
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1 Learning from Defects Problem Statement: Healthcare organizations could increase the extent to which they learn from defects. We define learning as reducing the probability that a future patient will be harmed. Most often clinicians recover from mistakes by reducing risks to the patient who suffered a defect. While we need to recover, we also need to learn or reduce risk to future patients. What is a Defect? A defect is any clinical or operational event or situation that you would not want to happen again. These could include incidents that you believe caused patient harm or put patients at risk for significant harm. Purpose of Tool: The purpose of this tool is to provide a structured approach to help caregivers and administrators identify the types of systems that contributed to the defect and follow-up to ensure safety improvements are achieved. Who Should Use this Tool: Clinical departmental designee at Morbidity & Mortality Rounds Patient care areas as part of the Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program (CUSP) All staff involved in the delivery of care related to this defect should be present when this defect is evaluated. At a minimum, this should include the physician, nurse and administrator and other selected professions as appropriate (e.g. medication defect include pharmacy, equipment defect should include clinical engineering). Investigation Process How to Use this Tool: Complete this tool on at least one defect per month. In addition, departments should investigate all of the following defects: liability claims, sentinel events, events for which risk management is notified, case presented at Morbidity & Mortality rounds and healthcare acquired infections. Investigation Process I. Provide a clear, thorough and objective explanation of what happened. II. Review the list of factors that contributed to the incident and check off those that negatively contributed and positively contributed to the impact of the incident. Negative contributing factors are those that harmed or increased risk of harm for the patient; positive contributing factors limited the impact of harm. Rate the most important contributing factors that relate to the incident. III. Describe how you will reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again by completing the tables. Develop interventions for each important contributing factor and rate each intervention for its ability to mitigate the defect and ability to be implemented. Identify 2-5 interventions that you will implement. List what you will do, who will lead the intervention, and when you will follow-up on the intervention s progress. IV. Describe how you know you have reduced the risk. Survey frontline staff involved in the incident to determine if the intervention has been implemented effectively and risk has been reduced. V. Summarize your findings using the one page Case Summary tool (Appendix F). APRIL
2 I. What happened? (Reconstruct the timeline and explain what happened. For this investigation, put yourself in the place of those involved, in the middle of the event as it was unfolding, to understand what they were thinking and the reasoning behind their actions/decisions. Try to view the world as they did when the event occurred.) II. Why did it happen? Below is a framework to help you review and evaluate your case. Please read each contributing factor and evaluate whether it was involved. If so, did it negatively contribute (increase harm) or positively contributed (reduce impact of harm) to the incident. Rate the most important contributing factors that relate to this event. Contributing Factors (Example) Patient Factors: Patient was acutely ill or agitated (Elderly patient in renal failure, secondary to congestive heart failure.) There was a language barrier (Patient did not speak English) There were personal or social issues (Patient declined therapy) Task Factors: Was there a protocol available to guide therapy? (Protocol for mixing medication concentrations is posted above the medication bin.) Were test results available to help make care decision? (Stat blood glucose results were sent in 20 minutes.) Were tests results accurate? (Four diagnostic tests done; only MRI results needed quickly results faxed.) Caregiver Factors Was the caregiver fatigued? (Tired at the end of a double shift, nurse forgot to take a blood pressure reading.) Did the caregiver s outlook/perception of own professional role impact on this event? (Doctor followed up to make sure cardiac consult was done expeditiously.) Was the physical or mental health of the provider a factor? (Provider having personal issues and missed hearing a verbal order.) Team Factors Was verbal or written communication during hand offs clear, accurate, clinically relevant and goal directed? (Oncoming care team was debriefed by out-going staff regarding patient s condition.) Was verbal or written communication during care clear, accurate, clinically relevant and goal directed? (Staff was comfortable expressing his/her concern regarding high medication dose.) Was verbal or written communication during crisis clear, accurate, clinically relevant and goal directed? (Team leader quickly explained and direct his/her team regarding the plan of action.) Was there a cohesive team structure with an identified and communicative leader? (Attending physician gave clear instructions to the team.) Negatively Positively APRIL
3 Contributing Factors (Example) Training & Education Factors Was provider knowledgeable, skilled & competent? (Nurse knew dose ordered was not standard for that medication.) Did provider follow the established protocol? (Provider pulled protocol to ensure steps were followed.) Did the provider seek supervision or help? (New nurse asked preceptor to help her/him mix medication concentration) Information Technology/CPOE Factors Did the computer/software program generate an error? (Heparin was chosen, but Digoxin printed on the order sheet.) Did the computer/software malfunction? (Computer shut down in the middle of provider s order entry.) Did the user check what he/she entered to make sure it was correct? (Provider initially chose.25mg, but caught his/her error and changed it to.025mg.) Local Environment Was there adequate equipment available and was the equipment working properly? (There were 2 extra ventilators stocked & recently serviced by clinical engineering.) Was there adequate operational (administrative and managerial) support? (Unit clerk out sick, but extra clerk sent to cover from another unit.) Was the physical environment conducive to enhancing patient care? (All beds were visible from the nurse s station.) Was there enough staff on the unit to care for patient volume? (Nurse ratio was 1:1.) Was there a good mix of skilled with new staff? (There was a nurse orientee shadowing a senior nurse and an extra nurse on to cover senior nurse s responsibilities.) Did workload impact the provision of good care? (Nurse caring for 3 patients because nurse went home sick.) Institutional Environment Were adequate financial resources available? (Unit requested experienced patient transport team for critically patients and one was made available the next day.) Were laboratory technicians adequately in-serviced/ educated? (Lab tech was fully aware of complications related to thallium injection.) Was there adequate staffing in the laboratory to run results? (There were 3 dedicated laboratory technicians to run stat results.) Were pharmacists adequately in-service/educated? (Pharmacists knew and followed the protocol for stat medication orders.) Did pharmacy have a good infrastructure (policy, procedures)? (It was standard policy to have a second pharmacist do an independent check before dispensing medications.) Was there adequate pharmacy staffing? (There was a pharmacist dedicated to the ICU.) Does hospital administration work with the units regarding what and how to support their needs? (Guidelines established to hold new ICU admissions in the ER when beds not available in the ICU.) Negatively Positively APRIL
4 Review the above list of contributing factors and identify the most important factors related to this event. Rate each contributing factor on its importance to this event and future events. Contributing Factors Importance to current event, 1 (low) to 5 Importance to future events, 1 (low) to 5 III. How will you reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again? Develop an intervention for each of the important contributing factors identified above. Develop interventions to defend against the 2 to 5 most important contributing factors. Refer to the Strength of Interventions* chart below for examples of strong and weak interventions. Then, rate each intervention on its ability to mitigate the contributing factor and on the team s belief that the intervention will be implemented and executed. Make an action plan for 2-5 of the highest scoring interventions. Interventions to reduce the risk of the defect Ability to mitigate the contributing factor, 1 (low to 5 Teams belief that the intervention will be implemented and executed, 1 (low) to 5 APRIL
5 Select 2-5 of the highest scoring interventions and develop an action plan for implementation. Specific interventions you will do to reduce the risk of the defect? Who will lead this effort? Follow up date Strength of Interventions * Weaker Actions Intermediate Actions Stronger Actions Double Check Checklists/ Cognitive Aid Architectural/physical plant changes Warnings and labels New procedure, memorandum or policy Increased Staffing/Reduce workload Redundancy Tangible involvement and action by leadership in support of patient safety Simplify the process/remove unnecessary steps Training and/or education Enhance Communication (read-back, SBAR etc.) Standardize equipment and/ or process of care map Additional Study/analysis Software enhancement/modifications New device usability testing before purchasing Eliminate look alike and sound- a-likes Engineering Control of interlock (forcing functions) Eliminate/reduce distractions Adapted from John Gosbee, MD, MS Human Factors Engineering Remember sometimes a weaker action is your only option. APRIL
6 IV. How will you know the risk is reduced? Ask frontline staff who were involved in the defect if the interventions reduced the likelihood of recurrence of the defect. After the interventions are implemented complete the Describe Defect and Interventions sections and have staff complete this survey by rating the interventions. Describe Defect: Interventions Intervention was effectively implemented, 1 (low) to 5 Intervention reduced the likelihood of recurrence, 1 (low) to 5 APRIL
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