Hand hygiene is a core element of patient safety for the prevention of healthcare-associated
infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Its promotion represents a challenge …

Background Unsafe medical care may cause substantial morbidity and mortality globally,
despite imprecise estimates of the magnitude of the problem. To better understand the …

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 …

Objectives: This study investigated the benefits of and barriers to user involvement in
medical device technology development and evaluation. Methods: A structured review of …

The purpose of this review is to organize various published conceptions of health numeracy
and to discuss how health numeracy contributes to the productive use of quantitative …

In April 1991 BusinessWeek ran a cover story entitled," I Can't Work This?#!!@ Thing," about
the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs …

Patient safety is a global challenge that requires knowledge and skills in multiple areas,
including human factors and systems engineering. In this chapter, numerous conceptual …

Objective: Intravenous medications are vital during inpatient management. Errors associated
with the administration of medications through intravenous infusion pumps to critically ill …

The use of Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) tools, methods, concepts and theories
has been advocated by many experts and organizations to improve patient safety. To …

The focus of Software for Dependable Systems is a set of fundamental principles that
underlie software system dependability and that suggest a different approach to the …