Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment in Patient Safety Monitoring

Below is an example hazard identification and risk assessment matrix of the manual steps involved in monitoring patients and what can go wrong (likely lapses).

The sample matrix above has been created by determining the consequence score and likelihood score of each process step followed by applying this to a risk matrix:

Determining the consequence score:

Determining the likelihood score:

Applying the above to a risk matrix to determine the risk score:

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