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ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. January 12, 2023;28(1):1-4.
James BC, Savitz L, Fairbanks RJ, et al. NEJM Catalyst. Epub Dec 12, 2022.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert!: Acute Care Edition. December 1, 2022;27(24):1-3.
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Human factors engineering or ergonomics (HFE) is a scientific discipline broadly focused on interactions among humans and other elements of a system.
Dr. Pascale Carayon, PhD, is a professor emerita in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the founding director of the Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering (WIHSE). Dr. Nicole Werner, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health and Wellness Design at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. We spoke with both of them about the role of human factors engineering has in improving healthcare delivery and its role in patient safety.