Human factors in healthcare : a field guide to continuous improvement.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parush, Avi.

Series:

Synthesis lectures on assistive, rehabilitative, and health preserving technologies, 2162-7266

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioinformatics.

Medical informatics.

Biomedical engineering.

Health services administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 202 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9783031016028

3031016025