scholarly journals Medical Device Risk Management from a Human Factors Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Anthony Easty
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Error Reduction ◽  
Clinical Engineering ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Engineering Teams ◽  
Adoption And Implementation

This paper describes the ways in which human factors methods can help to enhance the work of established clinical engineering teams by placing a new emphasis on error reduction and patient safety. This approach in many ways represents a natural evolution for departments that are looking to enhance their usefulness and relevance to healthcare. Several examples are given of points at which the introduction of human factors methods can reveal issues related to the safe use of medical devices that are not easily accessible by other means. Adoption and implementation of these methods offers the potential for clinical engineering departments to enhance their role of helping to ensure optimal patient safety.

Patient Safety Trilogy: Perspectives from Clinical Engineering

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabella Gieras ◽  
Paul Sherman ◽  
Dennis Minsent
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Clinical Engineering ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Healthcare Technology ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Clinical Engineers

This article examines the role a clinical engineering or healthcare technology management (HTM) department can play in promoting patient safety from three different perspectives: a community hospital, a national government health system, and an academic medical center. After a general overview, Izabella Gieras from Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, CA, leads off by examining the growing role of human factors in healthcare technology, and describing how her facility uses clinical simulations in medical equipment evaluations. A section by Paul Sherman follows, examining patient safety initiatives from the perspective of the Veterans Health Administration with a focus on hazard alerts and recalls. Dennis Minsent from Oregon Health & Science University writes about patient safety from an academic healthcare perspective, and details how clinical engineers can engage in multidisciplinary safety opportunities.

scholarly journals Patient Safety, Risk Reduction, and the Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry I. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health System ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Error Reduction ◽  
Medical Liability ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Care System

36 Houston Law Review 1609 (1999)"Patient safety" has come of age. With the publication of several empirical studies of medical injuries and the recent Institute of Medicine Report, To Err is Human: Building a Safe Health System, scholars from a variety of disciplines are advocating "systems thinking" as a way of preventing medical accidents. These scholars have been influenced by efforts to reduce accidents in other high risk industries such as aviation and scholarship in law proposing "no fault systems" for compensating medical accident victims. This article proposes that in order to incorporate "systems thinking" about medical error reduction, legal scholarship on the health care system must move beyond its preoccupation with the medical liability system. To develop a new framework for the role of law in enhancing patient safety, this article proposes that law's interaction with the public health system is the appropriate starting point for framing the legal analysis of patient safety. This framing of the issues acknowledges that the liability system may have a role to play in error reduction in medicine, but determining what this role is requires more empirical study of legal institutions as part of the emerging system of patient safety. To discover the appropriate role of law in the prevention of medical errors, this article encourages legal scholars to learn to pose empirical questions about how various institutions interact with the health care system.

Priorities in Patient Safety: The Role of Clinical Risk Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Teresa Capasso ◽  
G. Fornero ◽  
U. Fiandra ◽  
I. M. Raciti ◽  
A. Paudice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Clinical Risk Management ◽  
Clinical Risk

Pathology and patient safety: the critical role of pathology informatics in error reduction and quality initiatives

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Becich ◽  
John R. Gilbertson ◽  
Dilipkumar Gupta ◽  
Ashokkumar Patel ◽  
Dana Marie Grzybicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Error Reduction ◽  
Quality Initiatives ◽  
Pathology Informatics

The role of human factors in neonatal patient safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 151174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole K. Yamada ◽  
Kenneth Catchpole ◽  
Eduardo Salas
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Neonatal Patient

scholarly journals Patient Safety and Risk Management in Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-298
Author(s):  
Alessandro Cuomo ◽  
Despoina Koukouna ◽  
Lorenzo Macchiarini ◽  
Andrea Fagiolini
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Psychiatric Unit ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Staff Members

AbstractThis chapter will review the most common adverse events that happen in a psychiatric unit and the safety measures that are needed to decrease the risk of errors and adverse events. The adverse events and errors that may happen in a psychiatric unit are unique and will be examined in detail. This section will also highlight the role of staff members and patients in preventing or causing the error.

Medical Devices and Patient Safety

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mattox
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
Device Use

Errors related to health care devices are not well understood. Nurses in intensive care and progressive care environments can benefit from understanding manufacturer-related error and device-use error, the principles of human factors engineering, and the steps that can be taken to reduce risk of errors related to health care devices.

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