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Lazarovici, M.; Trentzsch, H. and Prückner, S. (2017): Human Factors in der Medizin. In: Anaesthesist, Vol. 66, No. 1: pp. 63-77

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Abstract

The concept of human factors is commonly used in the context of patient safety and medical errors, all too often ambiguously. In actual fact, the term comprises a wide range of meanings from human-machine interfaces through human performance and limitations up to the point of working process design;however, human factors prevail as a substantial cause of error in complex systems. This article presents the full range of the term human factors from the (emergency) medical perspective. Based on the so-called Swiss cheese model by Reason, we explain the different types of error, what promotes their emergence and on which level of the model error prevention can be initiated.

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