Techniques for Root Cause Analysis

Techniques for root cause analysis.

Root Cause and Error Analysis

Error is an inevitable part of life and cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be minimized. A root cause analysis is a technique for understanding the systematic error causes that is involved beyond a person or people to implement an errors and including field and environmental causes of errors when occur in this situation too. An important factor of an error occurrence is a root cause (c...

Survey on Models and Techniques for Root-Cause Analysis

Automation and computer intelligence to support complex human decisions becomes essential to manage large and distributed systems in the Cloud and IoT era. Understanding the root cause of an observed symptom in a complex system has been a major problem for decades. As industry dives into the IoT world and the amount of data generated per year grows at an amazing speed, an important question is ...

Scalable Root-Cause Analysis

From May 2 to May 7, 2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10181 Program Development for Extreme-Scale Computing was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas ar...

Root cause analysis.

M unoz, Lowry, and Smith (2012) reported the use of root cause analysis (RCA) as part of a continuous quality improvement project to reduce hypoglycemic episodes in patients following gynecological surgery. Root cause analysis is an important component of quality improvement, and nurses at all levels should understand the process and the outcomes of a RCA. Root cause analysis was used originall...