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Human factors in healthcare : a field guide to continuous improvement

Parush, Avi, author, Parush, Debi, 1960- author, Ilan, Roy, 1966- author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Subject: Medical errors Prevention. / Patients Safety measures. / Human engineering. / HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism / HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference / MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine / MEDICAL / Atlases / MEDICAL / Essays / MEDICAL / Family & General Practice / MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine / MEDICAL / Osteopathy / Medical Errors prevention & control. / Patient Safety. / Ergonomics.
• ISBN: 162705944X, 9781627059442

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
R729.8.P274 2017	1	P_MAP	AUTOSTORE