An Innovative Risk Assessment Tool for Prospective Risk Analysis to Improve the Quality in Health Care: The Bow-Tie

In order to improve the quality of health care, it is very important to assess the risks that might affect the service delivery and quality of health intervention. This will help other health care professionals to work on ensuring minimum risks are maintained in delivery a certain intervention to the patients. There are several models used in the the health care industry that helps in conducting a risk assessment, but there have been a gap in demonstrating a user-friendly model for the health care professionals. The Bow-tie model is a prospective risk assessment tool that can be conducted by several health care professionals to assess the potential risks in a certain department or intervention and offers a pictorial graphical presentation for easy understanding for all staff. Keywords: Risk assessment; Bow-tie; Quality; Health care