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Scaling root-cause care doesn’t mean losing what makes functional medicine unique. On the contrary, it protects and enhances ...

UChicago Medicine is one of 12 hospitals in the nation with a 26-year, Leapfrog straight-“A” streak and Stephen Weber, MD, said the secret is to never be satisfied. “Whether I’m seeing patients or ...

Sakichi Toyoda created the "Five Whys" (5Ys) as a method for identifying root causes of errors or problems way back in the early years of Toyota. He claimed that by asking "why?" five times, one could ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. The interrelated final standards on ...

Failure to pinpoint cause of breaches leaves many organizations wide open to further attacks. Resource shortages, firefight pressure, planning issues, and lack of post-incident follow-up to blame.

The Joint Commission has determined the 10 most common causes of sentinel events reported in the first six months of 2013. An organization reporting a sentinel event submits a root cause analysis to ...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a worker died every 96 minutes from a work-related injury in 2022, a 5.7 percent increase over the previous year. Worksite fatalities and incidents ...

To the average American not employed as an industrial engineer or a member of a problem-solving team at some big business, the term “root causes” would have seemed obscure until a few weeks ago. But ...

Fire damage on rooftop solar array. Thorough equipment due diligence helps mitigate risks. Image: CEA. The inverter helps prevent fires in solar systems but can also cause them if not properly ...