Patient safety
Subtitle: a human factors approach
By: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439852255
Subjects: Safety measures; Methods; Risk Assessment; Professional Competence; Patients; Medical errors; Safety Management; Patient Care; Prevention & control; Medical Errors; Prevention
Description: "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.
Notes: "CRC title."

Includes bibliographical references and index.