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SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Improving the Health Care Work Environment.

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. November 2007;33(suppl 1):3-84.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Ounce of prevention: to reduce errors, hospitals prescribe innovative designs.

Naik G. The Wall Street Journal. May 8, 2006:A1.

COMMENTARY

Human factors of complex sociotechnical systems.

Carayon P. Appl Ergon. 2006;37:525-535.

STUDY

House staff team workload and organization effects on patient outcomes in an academic general internal medicine inpatient service.

Ong M, Bostrom A, Vidyarthi A, McCulloch C, Auerbach A. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:47-52.

WISCONSIN MEETING/CONFERENCE

2013 SEIPS Short Course on Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety Extended Part I: Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems Engineering.

Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. July 15–18, 2013; The Lowell Center, University of Wisconsin-Extension, Madison, WI.

STUDY

Quantitative assessment of workload and stressors in clinical radiation oncology.

Mazur LM, Mosaly PR, Jackson M, et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012;83:e571-e576.

STUDY

High-performance work systems in health care management—part 1 and part 2.

Garman AN, McAlearney AS, Harrison MI, Song PH, McHugh M, Robbins J. Health Care Manage Rev. 2011;36:201-226.

STUDY

Strategies used by critical care nurses to identify, interrupt, and correct medical errors.

Henneman EA, Gawlinski A, Blank FS, Henneman PL, Jordan D, McKenzie JB. Am J Crit Care. 2010;19:500-509.

STUDY

Impact and implications of disruptive behavior in the perioperative arena.

Rosenstein AH, O'Daniel M. J Am Coll Surg. 2006;203:96-105.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Preventing violence in the health care setting.

Sentinel Event Alert. June 3, 2010;(45):1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Healing by design: new hospitals create places that improve patient outcomes.

Trewyn P, Sneider J. The Business Journal of Milwaukee. September 16, 2005.

STUDY

Effects of mental demands during dispensing on perceived medication safety and employee well-being: a study of workload in pediatric hospital pharmacies.

Holden RJ, Patel NR, Scanlon MC, Shalaby TM, Arnold JM, Karsh BT. Res Social Admin Pharm. 2010;6:293-306.

BOOK/REPORT

Soaring to Success: Taking Crew Resource Management from the Cockpit to the Nursing Unit.

Sculli GL, Sine DM. Danvers, MA: HCPro, Inc; 2011. ISBN: 9781601467836.

BOOK/REPORT

Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals.

McHugh M, Garman A, McAlearney A, Song P, Harrison M. Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust; June 2010.

BOOK/REPORT

Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care.

Roundtable on Joy and Meaning in Work and Workforce Safety, The Lucian Leape Institute. Boston, MA: National Patient Safety Foundation; 2013.

COMMENTARY

In Conversation With...Donald A. Norman, PhD

AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2006.

COMMENTARY

Enhancing healthcare process design with human factors engineering and reliability science, part 2: applying the knowledge to clinical documentation systems.

Boston-Fleischhauer C. J Nurs Admin. 2008;38:84-89.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety: An Engineering Approach.

Dhillon BS. New York, NY: CRC Press; 2011. ISBN: 9781439873861.

STUDY

Dispensing errors in community pharmacy: perceived influence of sociotechnical factors.

Szeinbach S, Seoane-Vazquez E, Parekh A, Herderick M. Int J Qual Health Care. 2007;19:203-09.

COMMENTARY

The creation and impact of a dedicated section on quality and patient safety in a clinical academic department.

Boudreaux AM, Vetter TR. Acad Med. 2013;88:173-178.

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