Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety.

Pascale Carayon; Tosha B. Wetterneck; Joy Rivera-Rodriguez; Ann Schoofs Hundt; Peter Hoonakker; Richard J. Holden; Ayse P. Gurses

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Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety.

December 18, 2013

Carayon P, Wetterneck TB, Rivera-Rodriguez J, et al. Appl Ergon. 2014;45(1):14-25.

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This commentary describes a model that combines work system and process redesign to promote human factors engineering as a patient safety improvement strategy.

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