Detecting the Failures Nobody Sees: Applying Pareto Analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to Equipment Reliability in a Healthcare Simulation Institute
Pernel F Roberts, Melissa Remy, Ashlee Lavine, Rakesh Calton · 2026
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Pernel Roberts and co-authors hunt the equipment failures that quietly wreck teaching sessions at a medical simulation centre, in a 2026 study. Hospitals analyse clinical failures systematically, but the manikins and audiovisual kit behind simulation training escape scrutiny, even though a failed recording can void an exam debrief. The team took two years of incident reports from an offshore medical school's institute, twenty-two in all.
They applied the quality toolbox: Pareto charts to find the vital few failure types, fishbone diagrams with repeated why-asking to reach root causes, and failure mode analysis scoring severity, frequency, and detectability. Leadership set the severity anchors by consequence. The work covers the first half of a standard improvement cycle, defining and measuring the problem so fixes can follow. Small numbers, the authors suggest, still teach big lessons.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pernel F Roberts, Melissa Remy, Ashlee Lavine, Rakesh Calton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |