Human Factors in Healthcare - A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement (Paperback)

Have you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it? This book walks you through a classic adverse event as a case study and shows you how. It is a practical guide to continuously improving your healthcare environment, processes, tools, and ultimate outcomes, through the discipline of human factors. Using this book, you as a healthcare professional can improve patient safety and quality of care. Adverse events are a major concern in healthcare today. As the complexity of healthcare increases-with technological advances and information overload-the field of human factors offers practical approaches to understand the situation, mitigate risk, and improve outcomes. The first part of this book presents a human factors conceptual framework, and the second part offers a systematic, pragmatic approach. Both the framework and the approach are employed to analyze and understand healthcare situations, both proactively-for constant improvement-and reactively-learning from adverse events. This book guides healthcare professionals through the process of mapping the environmental and human factors; assessing them in relation to the tasks each person performs; recognizing how gaps in the fit between human capabilities and the demands of the task in the environment have a ripple effect that increases risk; and drawing conclusions about what types of changes facilitate improvement and mitigate risk, thereby contributing to improved healthcare outcomes.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Avi Parush
Dimensions:	235 x 191mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-100474-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Molecular biology Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Health & safety aspects of computing Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Biomedical engineering > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-100474-4
Barcode:	9783031004742

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