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