A thorough understanding of the role of human factors in error in health care for improving
patient safely is paramount. One area particularly crucial for optimising clinical performance …

It is increasingly being recognised that human factors can contribute to error in complex
safety systems. Healthcare, however, has a long way to go before the promotion of training …

Let us start with a simple clinical example. You are an emergency physician and your next
patient to assess is an elderly patient with a fever and cough, and a HR of 120 and a BP of …

In contemporary healthcare settings, ensuring patient safety must be an underlying principal
through which systems, teams, individuals and environments work in tandem to strive for …

Situation awareness describes an individual's perception, comprehension and subsequent
projection of what is going on in the environment around them. The concept of situation …

Introduction The'never event'concept is often used in secondary care and refers to an
agreed list of patient safety incidents that'should not happen if the necessary preventative …

Although concern for patient safety is inherent to the practice of the health care professions,
its transformation into a specific body of knowledge is relatively recent and thus patient …

Abstract High-risk organisations (HRO), including aviation, undergo formal communication
training, with emphasis on safety-critical moments. Such training is not widespread or …

One major limitation in the use of human patient simulators is a lack of objective, validated
measures of human performance. Objective measures are necessary if simulators are to be …

This chapter proposes a research perspective that focuses on the presence of safety and
explores its texture. It outlines an alternative research agenda which concentrates on the …