Intensive care units (ICUs) provide care to the most severely ill hospitalized patients.
Although ICUs increasingly rely on interprofessional teams to provide critical care, little …

Objective: Handoffs of patient care from one nurse to another are an integral part of nursing
practice; but there is abundant evidence that poor communication and variable procedures …

Annotation" The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to resilience engineering of
systems, covering both the theoretical and practical aspects. It is written for people who, as …

Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a
widespread perception of a'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in …

BACKGROUND: Communication breakdowns are a common threat to surgical safety, but
there are little data to guide initiatives to improve communication. STUDY DESIGN: In …

Importance Handoff miscommunications are a leading cause of medical errors. Studies
comprehensively assessing handoff improvement programs are lacking. Objective To …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

BACKGROUND: To better understand the operating room as a system and to identify system
features that influence patient safety, we performed an analysis of operating room patient …

Background: The transfer of care for hospitalized patients between inpatient physicians is
routinely mediated through written and verbal communication or “sign-out”. This study aims …

A complete resource, this handbook presents current knowledge on concepts and methods
of human factors and ergonomics, and their applications to help improve quality, safety …