OBJECTIVES Administering parenteral antibiotics outside the confines of a ward setting is becoming an attractive way of treating infections in the UK. However, as well as having many advantages, an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) service potentially introduces new risks to staff and patients involved. In the United States, healthcare organizations are now prospectively analysing...

Palm oil is a plantation crop of high economic value and one the crops producing vegetable various other derivative products. processing factors that determine business productivity palm mill. The smoothness production process greatly influenced by reliability machines used. Ripple Mill machine meisn serves as seed breaker to separate shell from kernel. This study aims identify failures occur i...

BACKGROUND Clinicians use various clinical reasoning tools such as Ishikawa diagram to enhance their clinical experience and reasoning skills. Failure mode and effects analysis, which is an engineering methodology in origin, can be modified and applied to provide inputs into an Ishikawa diagram. METHOD The human biliary system is used to illustrate a modified failure mode and effects analysis...

This paper presents an industrial application of “Dysfunction Mode and Effects Critical Analysis” (DMECA) to determine and analyze possible dysfunctions in a complex management process. The approach conceptually derived from the Failure Mode and Effect Critical Analysis (FMECA) technique. DMECA enables user to analyze all possible dysfunctions of management processes, identify the subsequent ef...

In this paper, changes in sequences pattern describing damage-sensitive features of an object which undergoes a failure mode are recognized using an immune algorithm. A frequency response change is an effect for various failure modes occurrence. The objective of this paper is to present immune algorithm for pattern recognition which can discover dependencies between failure mode and effect freq...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of copulas for constructing the bivariate distribution of shear strength parameters on system reliability of geotechnical structures. First, the bivariate distribution of shear strength parameters is constructed using copulas. Second, the implementation procedure of system reliability analysis using direct Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is ...