Health and Social Care Ergonomics: Patient Safety in Practice.

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Health and Social Care Ergonomics: Patient Safety in Practice.

January 17, 2018

Hignett S, Albolino S, Catchpole K, eds. Ergonomics. 2018;61:1-161.

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Human factors engineering strategies offer a range of solutions to improve processes at both the micro and macro levels of the system. Articles in this special issue build on previous discussions of the evidence base on human factors engineering efforts in health care and explore topics such as nurse fatigue and frontline program implementation barriers.

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Preface

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