Sidney Dekker

Patient Safety

A Human Factors Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781439852255
• ISBN-10: 1439852251
• Artikelnr.: 30431872

Autorenporträt

About the author: Sidney Dekker (PhD, The Ohio State University, 1996) is Professor and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He was previously Professor and Director of the Leonardo da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking at Lund University, Sweden, and Professor of Community Health Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada. He has been Visiting Professor at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He recently became active as airline pilot, flying the Boeing 737.

Inhaltsangabe

Medical Competence and Patient Safety, The Problem of "Human Error" in
Healthcare. Cognitive Factors of Healthcare Work. New Technology,
Automation and Patient Safety. Safety Culture and Organizational Risk.
Practical Tools for Creating Safety. Accountability and Learning from
Failure. New Frontiers in Patient Safety: Complexity and Systems Thinking.