Background Human factors and ergonomics (HFE) approaches to patient safety have
addressed five different domains: usability of technology; human error and its role in patient …

Healthcare systems need to be redesigned to provide care that is safe, effective and
efficient, and meets the multiple needs of patients. This systematic review examines how …

This document, which is an update of the guidance published on 5 June 2020, includes new
scientific evidence relevant to the use of masks for reducing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the …

of HFE techniques in the healthcare domain and highlighted important design
considerations for medical equipment. It is important to understand that the use of HFE …

The goal of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of Plan‐Checker Tool (PCT) which was
created to improve first‐time plan quality, reduce patient delays, increase the efficiency of …

Radiation therapy is an effective, personalized cancer treatment that has benefited from
technological advances associated with the growing ability to identify and target tumors with …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Heuristic evaluations have been used to evaluate safety of
medical devices by identifying and assessing usability issues. Since radiotherapy treatment …

Background and purpose Incident learning can reveal important opportunities for safety
improvement, yet learning from error is challenged by a number of human factors. In this …

Objectives: Recent federal mandates and incentives have spurred the rapid growth,
development and adoption of health information technology (HIT). While providing …

Purpose To develop a checklist that improves the rate of error detection during the plan
review of automatically generated radiotherapy plans. Methods A custom checklist was …