A multidisciplinary team was assembled to perform an FMEA of the i.v. medication administration process incorporating pump technology and to report its findings to the hospital performance-improvement ...

FMEA is a structured approach used to identify ways in which a product or process can fail, estimate risk associated with specific causes, and prioritize actions that should be taken to reduce risk.

This article is part of PharmTech's supplement "Injectable Drug Delivery." Aseptic processes are some of the most difficult processes to conduct in the pharmaceutical industry. Because of the nature ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63(16):1528-1538. We report anticipated failure modes that occurred postimplementation despite the implementation of our recommended actions. Most of the listed failures ...