Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare
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Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare

  1. 902 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare

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Based on recent research, this book discusses how to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in patient care through the application of human factors and ergonomics principles. It provides guidance for those involved with the design and application of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery from both a patient

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1. Challenges and Opportunities for Applying Human Factors Methods to the Development of Nontechnical Skills in Healthcare Education
  5. Chapter 2. The Daily Plan®: Patients Taking Part in Patient Safety
  6. Chapter 3. Teaching Healthcare Clinicians to Demand Safe Healthcare Delivery Systems
  7. Chapter 4. OR2010- Processes Analysis Within the OR and the Consequences for Product Design
  8. Chapter 5. Benefits of a Structured User Centered Design Process For Customers -Patients and Manufacturers
  9. Chapter 6. Conflicting Benefits and Hazards of Hospital-Style Bed Rails
  10. Chapter 7. The Use of Human Factors to Promote Safety and Efficiency in the Operating Room
  11. Chapter 8. Quality Improvement Projects in Patient Safety
  12. Chapter 9. Healthcare Product Design for Quality
  13. Chapter 10. Effect of Emotional Intelligence on Healthcare IT Acceptance
  14. Chapter 11. Targeting Environmental Factors to Reduce Elderly In-Patient Falls
  15. Chapter 12. Design for Patient and Staff Safety
  16. Chapter 13. Design Considerations in the Provision of Safe Patient Handling Environments
  17. Chapter 14. Use of Effective Patient Handling Techniques within Healthcare
  18. Chapter 15. A Tool to Compare All Patient Handling Interventions
  19. Chapter 16. Evaluation of an Intervention to Reduce Upper Extremity Pain in Ultrasound
  20. Chapter 17. A Systems Engineering Approach to Improve Healthcare Quality
  21. Chapter 18. Patient Satisfuction in Emergency Departments -First Results of a Survey
  22. Chapter 19. Medical Team Training in the Veterans Health Administration: Checklist Guided Preoperative Briefings and Postoperative De briefings
  23. Chapter 20. VA Health Information Technology: Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), Bar Code Medication Administration,(BCMA) and My HealtheVet
  24. Chapter 21. Model-Based Usability and Error Analysis of an Electronic Health Record Interface
  25. Chapter 22. Team Coordination and Performance During Simulated and Real Anesthesia Inductions
  26. Chapter 23. Leadership and Minimally Invasive Training Enhance Performance in Medical Emergency Driven Teams: Simulator Studies
  27. Chapter 24. Decisive Action vs. Joint Deliberation: Different Medical Tasks Imply Different Coordination Requirements
  28. Chapter 25. Proactive Design of a Hospital Environment with Multifaceted Ergonomic Considerations
  29. Chapter 26. First Do No Harm: The Unintended Consequences of Embedding Technology in Healthcare
  30. Chapter 27. How to Prevent Medication Errors
  31. Chapter 28. Analysis of Questionnaire on Appearance Similarity of PTP Sheets
  32. Chapter 29. Information System for Health: a Proposal of an Animated Instruction Guide to Design Medicine Inserts in Brazil
  33. Chapter 30 .Task Analysis for Reading Strategies in Medicine Inserts: A Methodological Proposal
  34. Chapter 31. Analysis on Descriptions of Precautionary Statements in Package Inserts of Medicines
  35. Chapter 32. The Standardization of Medicine Name Structures Suitable for a Prescription Entry System
  36. Chapter 33. Patient Safety in Education (Emergency Dept., OR,ICU)
  37. Chapter 34. Patient Safety? Usability? Experience in Real Clinical Life
  38. Chapter 35. How to Develop Usable Surgical Devices TheView From a U.S. Research University
  39. Chapter 36. Standardized Evaluation Process of Usability Properties
  40. CHAPTER37. Analysis of Cross Professional Communication in Thoracic Operating Rooms
  41. Chapter 38. Airline Safety Practices in Clinical Nursing
  42. Chapter 39. Improving the Qaulity of Patient Care in an Emergency Department Through Modeling and Simulation of its Process
  43. Chapter 10. Virtual Reality: From Training to Rehabilitation
  44. Chapter 41. Designing a Virtual Patient for Communication
  45. Chapter 42. Mobile Devices as Virtual Blackboards for M -Learning
  46. Chapter 43. The Central Totem for Hospital Stay: An Example of Applied Patient-Centred Design
  47. Chapter 44. Toward the Standardization of Health Care Record Management Systems
  48. Chapter 45. Interactive System to Assist Rehabilitation of Children: Development of a System Employing New Rehabilitation Movement
  49. Chapter 46. The Characteristics of Center of Pressure Progression for Elderly Adults
  50. Chapter 47. An Application of the Intermittent Illumination Model for Measuring Individual's Corrective Reaction Time
  51. Chapter 48. Systematic and Structured Development of Human Included VE to Support Virtual Ergonomic Evaluation
  52. Chapter 49. Multi-Scale Entropy Analysis for Postural Sway Signals with Attention Influence for Elderly and Young Subjects
  53. Chapter 50. Human Reliability of Prescription Preparing Processes
  54. Chapter 51. Spine Load in the Context of Automotive Seating
  55. Chapter 52. Relevant Analysis on Rollover and Physical Properties of Mattresses
  56. Chapter 53. Information Management and Decision Processes in Emergency Departments
  57. Chapter 54. A Human Factors Approach to Evaluating Intravenous Morphine Administration in a Pediatric Surgical Unit
  58. Chapter 55. Linguistic Etiquette in Social Robot Interaction with Humans in Medicine Delivery
  59. Chapter 56. Fuzzy Based Risk Assessment of a HIS Implementation: A Case Study from a Turkish Hospital
  60. Chapter 57. A New Model-Based Approach for the User Interface Design of Medical Systems and Devices
  61. Chapter 58. Integrated Analysis of Communication in Hierarchical Task Models focused on Medical Critical Systems
  62. Chapter 59. Effects of BCMA on Clinicians' Communication, Coordination and Cooperation
  63. Chapter 60. Designing Medical Device Human Performance Validation Proto Is for FDA Clearance: A Case Study
  64. Chapter 61. A Qualitative Assessment of Medical Device Design by Healthy Adolescents
  65. Chapter 62. Contextual Inquiry for Medical Device Development: A Case Study
  66. Chapter 63. An Intelligent Community Care System Using Network Sensors and Mobile Agent Technology
  67. Chapter 64. Mobile Agent Based Ubiquitous Health Care(UHC) Monitoring Platform
  68. Chapter 65. Human Factors in a Voluntary Medical Incident Reporting System
  69. Chapter 66. Development and Comfort Analysis of a Chair for Microscopic Surgery
  70. Chapter 67. Importance of Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare and Implementation in Patient Safety
  71. Chapter 68. An Analytical Framework to Measure Effective Human Machine Interaction
  72. Chapter 69. A Review of Web-Based Dietary Interventions From the HF /E Perspective
  73. Chapter 70. HFMEATM of a Radiotherapy Information System - Challenges & Recommendations for Future Studies
  74. Chapter 71. Enabling Pre-Hospital Documentation Via Spoken Language Understanding on the Modern Battlefield
  75. Chapter 72. Mobile Based Personalized Learning for People with Learning Disabilities
  76. Chapter 73. A Novel Input Method for Trepidant Users of Telemedical Services
  77. Chapter 74. Using Goal Directed Task Analysis to Identify Situation Awareness Requirements of Advanced Paramedics
  78. Chapter 75. Integrating Ergonomics in an Environment of Care: Application of the NIOSH Model Ergonomic Program in a Healthcare Setting
  79. Chapter 76. The Anthropometric Difference Between Curacao and the Netherlands/USA with Regard to Table Height
  80. Chapter 77. Medicoergonomics -Industrial Ergonomics Adapted to Clinical Requirements
  81. Chapter 78. Methods of Clinical Process Analysis Systematically Replacing a ''Banal Rationing'' by a ''Balanced Rationalization''
  82. Chapter 79. The Relative Importance of Usability and Functionality Factors forE-Health WebSites
  83. Chapter 80. Factors Affecting Acceptance of Internet as a Healthcare Information Source
  84. Chapter 81. Ergonomic Considerations on the Implementation ofSmall-Caliber Trans-Nasal Gastroduodenoscopy
  85. Chapter 82. The Epidemiology of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Turkish Computer Users
  86. Chapter 83. Reduction of Physical Load at the Waist of a Care Worker Using Muscle Suit
  87. Chapter 84. Practicing User-Centered Design to Reduce Call Time and Improve Accuracy in a Medical Triage System
  88. Chapter 85. The Impact of Usability in Emergency Telemedical Services
  89. Chapter 86. Reducing the Risk of Heat Stress Using Artificial Neural Networks Based Job-Combination Approach
  90. Chapter 87. Exposure of Vibration to Bus and Train Passengers
  91. Chapter 88. Management of Work Site Health Promotion: A Success Story
  92. Chapter 89. Instilling an Organizational Climate for Health: Does Top-Management Make the Difference?
  93. Chapter 90. Speech Intelligibility and Visual Performance While Wearing Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs)
  94. Chapter 91. Man-Machine-Interaction in Complex Intraoperative Orthopedic Work Systems
  95. Chapter 92. Methodology for a Combined Evaluation of Cognitive and Physical Ergonomics Aspects of Medical Equipment
  96. Chapter 93. A Human Factors Evaluation of Flexible Endoscope Reprocessing
  97. Chapter 94. The Measure of Success: Quantifying the Acute Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Hamstring Flexibility
  98. Chapter 95. Health 2.0:User Centering, Patient Centering and Human Centering
  99. Chapter 96. Sociotechnical Model of Inpatient Nursing Work System for Understanding Healthcare IT Innovation Diffusion
  100. Back Cover