Translation and cultural adaptation of the HFMEA into European Portuguese

Introduction Health organizations are faced with daily challenges, requiring them to provide a quality service, ensuring effectiveness and efficiency. Risk management is one of the conditioning factors to achieve this purpose, ensuring preventive actions for all processes, promoting the identification of risk to the mitigation of its consequences for the patient, professionals, or organization. Patient safety is a priority and healthcare organizations should be concerned with the implementation of methodologies and tools to promote risk management, such as Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (HFMEA). HFMEA has a high potential for risk management in healthcare organizations, with a proactive, prospective, and continuous approach to improvement.