Methodology with a multi-criteria approach for Orthopedics technological risk management in hospitals

Foundation: Orthopedics is one of the specialties with high risk of demands due to professional responsibility; this is, among other reasons, because traffic, industrial and domestic accidents have noticeably increased lately.Objective: to describe the application of a methodology with a multi-criteria approach to the management of technological risks in an orthopedic service.Methods: a descriptive study was realized at the Orthopedics service Vladimir Ilinch Lenin Hospital in Holguín during 2016. A methodology with a multi-criteria approach was applied which had four stages: risk setting, identification, evaluation and control. Some of the instruments used were Petri network, Software for the analysis of social network and the multi-criteria entropy method.Results: as high priority and more influential risks in the specialty of orthopedics there were identified the copy and paste of old information when writing new reports, deficiencies in internal communication means and loss of information by the high as well as the orthopedics area. With the implementation of the Plan for preventing risks it was possible to increase risk detection and there updating so as decreasing the relationship risk-evaluation.Conclusion: the methodology used allows solving deficiencies in risk management in hospitals since it allows a higher accuracy in each of the process stages and therefore a more effective control.