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Patient safety a human factors approach

Dekker, Sidney.

Patient safety a human factors approach

Dekker, Sidney.

9781439852262

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2011.

xii, 249 p. : ill.

ch. 1. Medical competence and patient safety -- ch. 2. The problem of 'human error' in healthcare -- ch. 3. Cognitive factors of healthcare work -- ch. 4. New technology, automation, and patient safety -- ch. 5. Safety culture and organizational risk -- ch. 6. Practical tools for creating safety -- ch. 7. Accountability and learning from failure -- ch. 8. New frontiers in patient safety : complexity and systems thinking.

"With coverage ranging from the influence of professional identity in medicine and problematic nature of "human error", to the psychological and social features that characterize healthcare work, to the safety-critical aspects of interfaces and automation, this book spans the width of the human factors field and its importance for patient safety today. In addition, the book discusses topics such as accountability, just culture, and secondary victimization in the aftermath of adverse events and takes readers to the leading edge of human factors research today: complexity, systems thinking and resilience"--Provided by publisher.

Medical errors -- Prevention.

Patients -- Safety measures.

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