A diverse range of health professionals use psychomotor skills as part of their professional
practice roles. Most health disciplines use large or complex psychomotor skills. These skills …

The person-centred analysis and prevention approach has long dominated proposals to
improve patient safety in healthcare. In this approach, the focus is on the individual …

This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and
Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements …

Background Varied and fragmented care plans undertaken by different practitioners
currently expose surgical patients to lapses in expected care, increase the chance for …

In the present study, we investigated how two team mental model properties (similarity vs.
accuracy) and two forms of monitoring behavior (team vs. systems) interacted to predict team …

Safety in healthcare is a relatively recent field, but has received considerable attention over
the past 15 years. Healthcare organisations have been encouraged to learn from safety …

Human factors are the individual, team, environmental and organisational aspects of the
anaesthetic environment that affect performance and decision‐making of anaesthesia …

Background Distractions are a potential threat to patient safety. Previous research has
focused on parts of the anaesthetic process but not on entire cases, and has focused on …

E NarratiVe reView article patient outcomes. 30, 31 In another example, a CDS system
targeting cardiac surgery was configured to alert providers that patient monitor alarms were …

Abstract Background Prospective Hazard Analysis techniques such as Healthcare Failure
Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) and Structured What If Technique (SWIFT) have the …