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Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement. January 26, 2023, 2:00-3:00 PM (eastern).
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fed Register. December 12, 2022;87:76046-76048.
Federal Office of Public Health. 2m2c Convention Centre, Montreux, Switzerland, February 23-24, 2023.
Human factors engineering or ergonomics (HFE) is a scientific discipline broadly focused on interactions among humans and other elements of a system.
Dixon-Woods M, Martin G, eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2022.
Farnborough, UK: Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch; 2022.
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Washington, DC: White House; September 21, 2022.
Special thanks to Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH, Founder and CEO of Urgent Wellness LLC in Washington, DC; and Jack Westfall, MD, MPH, Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, for their thoughtful interviews on the topic of Primary Care and Patient Safety, which helped lay the groundwork for this Perspective.
Freya Spielberg MD, MPH, is the Founder and CEO of Urgent Wellness LLC, a social enterprise dedicated to improving the health of Individuals living in low-income housing in Washington, DC.
Jack Westfall, MD MPH, is a retired professor from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Former Director of the Robert Graham Center. We spoke with him about the role of primary care in the health and well-being of individuals, the hallmarks of high quality primary care and opportunities of primary care providers to enhance or promote patient safety.