Barriers

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1. Scrub colors and safety: rethinking role identification in critical events (1 July 2026)

   • Staff factors
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Staff factors
     • Emergency medicine
     • Human error
     • Communication

   By Patient Safety Learning, Thursday at 08:06

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   • Thursday at 08:06

2. Overconfident health workers provide lower quality healthcare (2019)

   • Bias
   • Overconfidence
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Bias
     • Overconfidence
     • Research
     • Low income countries
     • Decision making

   By Patient Safety Learning, 20 June

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   • 125 views
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   • 20 June

3. The NHS Alliance: Improving health literacy in the NHS (1 October 2025)

   • Health inequalities
   • Health literacy

   By Clare Hinkley, 8 June

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   • 886 views
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   • 8 June

4. The impact of language barriers on patient safety in Pennsylvania: A review of 336 patient safety events (29 December 2025)

   • Communication
   • Health inequalities
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Communication
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities

   By Patient Safety Learning, 20 May

   • 0 comments
   • 265 views
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   • 20 May

5. Failure to perceive clinical events: An under-recognised source of error (July 2014)

   • Human factors
   • Human error
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Human factors
     • Human error
     • Staff factors
     • Skills
     • Workload analysis
     • Research

   By Patient Safety Learning, 30 January

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   • 202 views
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   • 30 January

6. The impact of sensory stimuli on healthcare workers and outcomes in trauma rooms: A focus group study (18 December 2023)

   • Human factors
   • Workspace design
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Human factors
     • Workspace design
     • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
     • Physical environment
     • Research

   By Patient Safety Learning, 5 June, 2024

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   • 457 views
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   • 5 June, 2024

7. Set taxonomies to neutral (Stephen Shorrock, 11 November 2023)

   • Human error
   • Human factors
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Human error
     • Human factors
     • Communication problems
     • Training
     • System safety

   By Patient Safety Learning, 15 November, 2023

   • 0 comments
   • 705 views
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   • 15 November, 2023

8. The effect of decision fatigue on surgeons' clinical decision making (25 July 2019)

   • Surgeon
   • Fatigue / exhaustion
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Surgeon
     • Fatigue / exhaustion
     • Decision making
     • Research
     • Human factors

   By Patient Safety Learning, 9 November, 2023

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   • 666 views
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   • 9 November, 2023

9. Clinical decisions and time since rest break: An analysis of decision fatigue in nurses (November 2023)

   • Fatigue / exhaustion
   • Organisational culture
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Fatigue / exhaustion
     • Organisational culture
     • Decision making
     • Nurse
     • Working hours

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 November, 2023

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   • 1,868 views
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   • 3 November, 2023

10. Rethinking healthcare as a safety-critical industry

    • Human factors
    • Process redesign
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Human factors
      • Process redesign
      • System safety
      • High reliability organisations
      • Healthcare

    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 May, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 844 views
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    • 6 May, 2023

11. HSIB presentation: Talking about fatigue in healthcare

    • Fatigue / exhaustion
    • Staff safety
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Fatigue / exhaustion
      • Staff safety
      • Staff factors
      • Patient safety incident
      • Workload analysis
      • Working hours
      • Reporting

    By Sam, 22 September, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 883 views
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    • 22 September, 2022

12. Examining cognitive tasks in the emergency department: presentation from Nick Woodier (16 June 2022)

    • Doctor
    • Students
    • (and 7 more)

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      • Doctor
      • Students
      • Human factors
      • Organisational culture
      • Decision making
      • Training
      • Emergency medicine
      • Team culture
      • Teamwork

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 June, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 1,101 views
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    • 17 June, 2022

13. Presenting complaint: use of language that disempowers patients (27 April 2022)

    • Communication
    • Patient
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Communication
      • Patient
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 May, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 1,228 views
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    • 4 May, 2022

14. Every single cognitive bias in one infographic

    • Unconscious bias
    • Confirmation bias
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Unconscious bias
      • Confirmation bias
      • Human factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 September, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 3,236 views
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    • 10 September, 2021

15. Emergency physicians’ workstation design: An observational study of interruptions and perception of collaboration during shift-end handoffs (22 March 2021)

    • Human factors
    • Handover
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Human factors
      • Handover
      • Emergency medicine

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 April, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,082 views
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    • 1 April, 2021

16. Why isn’t After Action Review used more widely in the NHS?

    • After action review
    • Organisational learning
    • (and 3 more)

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      • After action review
      • Organisational learning
      • Team culture
      • Team leadership
      • Duty of Candour

    By Judy Walker, 1 February, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 6,606 views
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    • 1 February, 2021

17. Ten contextual conversations: a blog by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems (7 October 2020)

    • Human factors
    • Communication
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Human factors
      • Communication
      • Perception / understanding

    By Patient Safety Learning, 9 October, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,637 views
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    • 9 October, 2020

18. Safety-II and Just Culture: Where now? blog by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems (30 September 2020)

    • Human error
    • Human factors
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Human error
      • Human factors
      • Just Culture
      • Patient safety incident
      • Safety II

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 October, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 3,139 views
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    • 2 October, 2020

19. Human factors in healthcare: welcome progress, but still scratching the surface (2015)

    • Human factors
    • Ergonomics

    By Patient Safety Learning, 21 April, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,483 views
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    • 21 April, 2020

20. Improving patient safety and reducing alarm fatigue (February 2018)

    • Monitoring
    • Patient safety strategy
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Monitoring
      • Patient safety strategy
      • Safety behaviour
      • Patient engagement
      • Communication problems
      • Staff factors

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 1 January, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,330 views
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    • 1 January, 2020

21. Diane Vaughan's theory of the normalisation of deviance

    • Omissions
    • Non-compliance
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Omissions
      • Non-compliance
      • Job design
      • Flawed processes
      • Safety behaviour
      • Feedback

    By Claire Cox, 1 January, 2020

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    • 13,003 views
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    • 1 January, 2020

22. National Academy of Medicine: Taking action against clinician burnout. A systems approach to professional well-being (2019)

    • Fatigue / exhaustion
    • Human error
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Fatigue / exhaustion
      • Human error
      • Organisational culture

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 December, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,940 views
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    • 1 December, 2019

23. Burnout, well-being and defensive medical practice among obstetricians and gynaecologists in the UK: cross-sectional survey study

    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • Fatigue / exhaustion

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 November, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,350 views
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    • 27 November, 2019

24. Why do we resist new thinking about safety and systems? by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems (12 April 2013)

    • Human factors
    • System safety

    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 November, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,107 views
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    • 6 November, 2019

25. Why don't physicians follow clinical practice guidelines? A framework for improvement (April 1999)

    • Clinical process
    • Behaviour
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Clinical process
      • Behaviour
      • Standards
      • Knowledge issue
      • Systematic review
      • Doctor

    By Sam, 5 October, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,494 views
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    • Added by Sam
    • 5 October, 2019