Works system design for patient safety: The SEIPS Model
Most errors and inefficiencies in patient care arise not from the solitary actions of individuals but from conflicting, incomplete, or sub-optimal systems of which they are a part and with which they interact. To improve the design of these systems, the US Institute...
Scoping Review of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Primary Care
Much of the early research and focus in human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) in healthcare has been in the acute sector. This is partly because the early high profile interest has been from people in acute areas learning lessons from other safety-critical industries who...
Human Factors in Suicide Prevention
Dr Sangeeta Mahajan, a consultant Anaesthetist, tells her story of how her only son took his own life and her subsequent investigation into what went...
Human Factors Team Training – TeamSTEPPS pilot – good practice Barnsley NHS
Many incidents, claims and complaints involve poor communication and team working as a contributory factor or a root cause. Currently team training is not mandatory for NHS staff and many people assume staff already know how to work well as a team. TeamSTEPPS® (Team...