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Main Links Home  Software Products      for FMEA & RCA RCA Brochure FMA Brochure Incident Brochure Root Cause Analyst® Failure Mode Analyst® Training and Workshops FMEA in Healthcare Cost-Effective RCA Papers & Articles RCA FAQs  Downloads Report Forms Resource Links About CCD Email Us Frequently Asked Questions: Root Cause Analysis and Sentinel Events in Healthcare 1 Is the "voluntary self-reporting" that JCAHO talks about really voluntary? 2 What does it cost to do a Root Cause Analysis? 3 Is this root cause analysis just another make-work, JCAHO requirement? 4 Of the four options offered by the JCAHO for review of an root cause analysis after a sentinel event, which do you recommend? 5 What is the difference between a proximal cause and a root cause, and why have you said that you dislike both terms? 6 When should a facility perform a root cause analysis on an event not required by JCAHO? 7 You seem to frequently use the term "adverse event or condition" rather than "sentinel event." Why? 8 What are the comments and responses you've heard in regard to JCAHO's Sentinel Event and Root Cause Analysis Policy? 9 What do you make of the relative preponderance of suicides among the recently released data about reported sentinel events (Of 562 sentinel events reviewed by JCAHO from 1/95 through 7/99, 117 were patient suicides)? 10 Once a root cause analysis is done, who should be responsible for making certain that any recommended changes are implemented? 11 Who determines whether or not your root cause analysis is adequate? 12 Can you recommend any software to help with a root cause analysis? 13 What constitutes a "thorough and credible" root cause analysis? 14 What are the reporting requirements regarding sentinel events and root cause analysis for Department of Defense healthcare facilities 15 Why the emphasis on a review of the literature as part of a root cause analysis? 16 What do you see as the relationship between root cause analysis and peer review? 17 I'm the risk manager at a medium-sized community hospital, with the usual limited resources. Would you recommend going to workshops and the like to learn how to do an effective root cause analysis?   Software for Healthcare FMEA   Software for Healthcare RCA Training and consulting in Root Cause Analysis and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis for the healthcare environment Live, online demonstrations are available for both Root Cause AnalystTM and Failure Mode AnalystTM. Call us at 1-800-862-9939 (or 780-416-4414) for information or to schedule a demonstration of our FMEA and RCA software tools. Ask about FMEA & RCA training! Root Cause Analyst | Failure Mode Analyst FMEA & RCA Training | Forum | Email CCD Health Systems  Copyright Information? 1998-2007 CCD Health Systems. All rights reserved. HFMEA and other trademarks are the sole property of CCD Health Systems. Page last modified on 24 August 2007.