Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety

  1. 876 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety

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The first edition of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety took the medical and ergonomics communities by storm with in-depth coverage of human factors and ergonomics research, concepts, theories, models, methods, and interventions and how they can be applied in health care. Other books focus on particular human

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Preface
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Editor
  8. Contributors
  9. Chapter 1: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety
  10. Chapter 2: Opportunities and Challenges in the Pursuit of Patient Safety
  11. Chapter 3: Embedded Risks and Challenges of Modern Health Care and the Urgent Call for Proactive Human Factors
  12. Chapter 4: Historical Perspective and Overview of Macroergonomics*
  13. Chapter 5: Work System Design in Health Care
  14. Chapter 6: Error as Behavior and Murphy’s Law: Implications for Human Factors and Ergonomics
  15. Chapter 7: Organizational Learning in Health Care
  16. Chapter 8: The Relationship between Physician Professionalism and Health Care Systems Change
  17. Chapter 9: The Effect of Workplace Health Care Worker Stress and Burnout on Patient Outcomes
  18. Chapter 10: Safety Culture in Health care
  19. Chapter 11: Handoffs and Transitions of Care
  20. Chapter 12: High-Reliability Organizations in Health Care
  21. Chapter 13: The Relation between Teamwork and Patient Safety
  22. Chapter 14: Health-Care Work Schedules
  23. Chapter 15: The Physical Environment in Health Care
  24. Chapter 16: Assessment and Evaluation Tools for Health-Care Ergonomics: Musculoskeletal Disorders and Patient Handling
  25. Chapter 17: Human Factors and Ergonomics of Health Information Technology Implementation
  26. Chapter 18: Human–Computer Interaction Design in Health Care
  27. Chapter 19: Trust in Health Technologies
  28. Chapter 20: Human Factors in Telemedicine
  29. Chapter 21: Using Health IT to Improve Health Care and Patient Safety
  30. Chapter 22: Human Error in Health Care
  31. Chapter 23: Medical Failure Taxonomies
  32. Chapter 24: Human Error Reduction Strategies in Health Care
  33. Chapter 25: Communicating about Unexpected Outcomes, Adverse Events, and Errors
  34. Chapter 26: Human Factors Engineering of Health Care Reporting Systems
  35. Chapter 27: Error Recovery in Health Care
  36. Chapter 28: Cognitive Work Analysis in Health Care
  37. Chapter 29: Human Factors Risk Management for Medical Products
  38. Chapter 30: Human Factors Analysis of Workflow in Health Information Technology Implementation
  39. Chapter 31: Video Analysis: An Approach for Use in Health Care
  40. Chapter 32: Usability Evaluation in Health Care
  41. Chapter 33: Medical Simulation
  42. Chapter 34: Simulation-Based Training for Teams in Health Care: Designing Scenarios, Measuring Performance, and Providing Feedback
  43. Chapter 35: Ergonomics Programs and Effective Implementation
  44. Chapter 36: Work Organization Interventions in Health Care
  45. Chapter 37: Team Training for Patient Safety*
  46. Chapter 38: Human Factors Considerations in Health IT Design and Development
  47. Chapter 39: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient Safety Management
  48. Chapter 40: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Intensive Care Units
  49. Chapter 41: Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Emergency Department
  50. Chapter 42: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Pediatrics
  51. Chapter 43: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Home Care
  52. Chapter 44: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Primary Care
  53. Chapter 45: In Search of Surgical Excellence: A Work Systems Approach
  54. Chapter 46: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Medication Safety
  55. Chapter 47: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Infection Prevention
  56. Chapter 48: Human Factors in Anesthesiology
  57. Back Cover