Human Factors in Healthcare: A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement (Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies)

Avi Parush, Debi Parush, Roy Ilan

  • 出版商: Morgan & Claypool
  • 出版日期: 2017-02-15
  • 售價: $2,320
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,204
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 162705944X
  • ISBN-13: 9781627059442
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商品描述

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.