Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors
that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or …

Background Recent attention in health care has been on the actual architectural design of a
hospital facility, including its technology and equipment, and its effect on patient safety. To …

Alan H. Rosenstein is vice president and medical director and Michelle O'Daniel is director,
member relations, of VHA West Coast. The authors report that each contributed equally to …

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essential prerequisites for effective action. Unfortunately and understandably, what is …

Human factors and ergonomics approaches have been successfully applied to study and
improve the work performance of healthcare professionals. However, there has been …

BACKGROUND: The risk of technical failure during operations is recognized, but there is
evidence that further improvements in safety depend on systems factors, in particular …

The past decade has seen an increase in the application of human factors and ergonomics
(HFE) techniques to healthcare delivery in a broad range of contexts (domains, locations …

Purpose Current uses of medication-related clinical decision support (CDS) and
recommendations for improving these systems are reviewed. Summary Using a systematic …

Interruptions in the nursing work environment can have significant, detrimental effects on
patient safety. This mixed-method study used work observation and focus groups to explore …

Programming errors contribute to death from patient-controlled analgesia: case report and
estimate of probability Page 1 Purpose: To identify the factors that threaten patient safety when …