Around the Patient Bed: Human Factors and Safety in Health Care

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Yoel Donchin (Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel) Daniel Gopher

Around the Patient Bed

Human Factors and Safety in Health Care

Yoel Donchin (Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel), Daniel Gopher

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English

CRC Press Inc
16 October 2013

Economics; Public ownership & nationalisation; Health systems & services; Engineering: general; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics

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.

Edited by: Yoel Donchin (Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center Jerusalem Israel), Daniel Gopher
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781466573628
ISBN 10: 1466573627
Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Pages: 349
Publication Date: 16 October 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yoel Donchin, Daniel Gopher