Author

Dekker, Sidney

Place of Publication

Boca Raton, Fla.

Publisher

CRC Press

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

Softcover, 262 p.

Subject

Safety

Hospital Safety

Abstract

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors perspective, Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach delineates a method that can enlighten and clarify this discourse as well as put us on a better path to correcting the issues.

ISBN

9781439852255

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF JB 205 DEK 2011

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Author

Dekker, Sidney

Editor

2nd

Place of Publication

Boca Raton, Fla.

Publisher

CRC Press

Publication Date

2015

Physical Description

312 p.

Subject

Safety

Hospital Safety

Abstract

Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resulted in new roles, decisions, and vulnerabilities whilst practitioners are also faced with new levels of complexity, adaptation, and constraints. It is becoming increasingly apparent that conventional approaches to safety and human factors are not equipped to cope with these challenges and that a new era in safety is necessary. In addition to new material covering changes in the field during the past decade, the book takes a new approach to discussing safety.

ISBN

9781482241990

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF JB 205 DEK 2015

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