Human factors in medicine

Lazarovici, M. (2017): Human factors in medicine. In: Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie, Bd. 67, Nr. 2: S. 124-137

Abstract

Theconcept of human factors is commonly used in the context of patient safety andmedical errors, all too often ambiguously. In actual fact, the termcomprises awide range ofmeanings fromhumanmachine interfaces through human performance and limitations up to the point ofworking 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 fromthe (emergency) medical perspective. Based on the so-called Swiss cheesemodel 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.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0944-2502
• Sprache: Englisch