Patient safety: a human factors approach

Patient safety: a human factors approach

Dekker, Sidney

33,78 €(IVA inc.)

With coverage ranging from the influence of professional identity in medicineand 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.

  • ISBN: 978-1-4398-5225-5
  • Editorial: CRC Press
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 249
  • Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés