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Assess your patient safety readiness.

What comes first, the chicken or the egg? biomedical/clinical engineering (BME/ CE) departments and professionals that are interested in becoming more involved in patient safety initiatives may find this self-assessment tool to be a good reference to use to assess and enhance their programs. The tool is meant to give the reader a road map to ensure that he or she has all the necessary resources, policies, procedures, and training (e.g. in conducting medical device investigations, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Root Cause Analysis) before they offer to become more involved in the patient-safety movement at their facilities. The measurement of involvement may be approached from two perspectives: I. Prospective Risk Assessment (prevention is better than cure) II. Retrospective Risk Assessment (lessons to be learned) Please use the criteria below to assess your department’s level of involvement.