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Around the Patient Bed - Human Factors and Safety in Health Care (Hardcover)
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Around the Patient Bed - Human Factors and Safety in Health Care (Hardcover)
Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics
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The occurrence of failures and mistakes in health care, from
primary care procedures to the complexities of the operating room,
has become a hot-button issue with the general public and within
the medical community. Around the Patient Bed: Human Factors and
Safety in Health Care examines the problem and investigates the
tools to improve health care quality and safety from a human
factors engineering viewpoint-the applied scientific field engaged
in the interaction between the human operator (functionary,
worker), task requirements, the governing technical systems, and
the characteristics of the work environment. The book presents a
systematic human factors-based, proactive approach to the
improvement of health care work and patient safety. The proposed
approach delineates a more direct and powerful alternative to the
contemporary dominant focus on error investigation and care
providers' accountability. It demonstrates how significant
improvements in the quality of care and enhancement of patient
safety are contingent on a major shift from efforts and investments
driven by a retroactive study of errors, incidents, and adverse
events, to an emphasis on proactive human factors-driven
intervention and the development of corresponding conceptual
approaches and methods for its systematic implementation. Edited by
Yoel Donchin, representing the medical profession, and Daniel
Gopher, from the human factors engineering field, the book brings
together experts who have collaborated to present studies that
reveal a wide range of problems and weaknesses of the contemporary
health care system, which impair safety and quality and increase
workload. The book presents practical solutions based on human
factors engineering components and cognitive psychology, and
explains their driving principles and methodologies. This approach
provides tools to significantly reduce the number of errors,
creates a safe environment, and improves the quality of health
care.
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