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Human factors (improving human performance in care delivery)

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  1. Barriers

    • 28 articles
    Scrub colors and safety: rethinking role identification in critical events (1 July 2026)
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  2. Process improvement

    • 36 articles
    Decluttering for safety: Can we simply apply approaches used in de-implementing low-value care? (March 2026)
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  3. Techniques

    • 55 articles
    The effectiveness of checklists and error reporting systems in enhancing patient safety and reducing medical errors in hospital settings: A narrative review (July 2024)
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  4. Good practice from other industries

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    Safety in high-reliability organizations: The role of upward voice, team learning, and safety climate (16 February 2025)
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231 articles in this category

  1. Nurse fatigue and nurse, patient safety, and organizational outcomes: A systematic review (8 February 2021)

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  2. CIEHF: What is ergonomics? (November 2022)

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  3. CIEHF - Designing for healthcare webinar (15 December 2022)

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  4. Turning Safety-II thinking into action (17 January 2022)

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  5. Predicting dispensing errors in community pharmacies: An application of the Systematic Human Error Reduction and Prediction Approach (SHERPA) (4 January 2022)

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  6. PSNet - Using Human Factors Engineering and the SEIPS model to advance patient safety in care transitions (16 November 2022)

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  7. Steven Shorrock - The archetypes of human work: 1. The Messy Reality (13 January 2017)

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  8. NOA webinar: Human Factors training and patient safety (15 November 2022)

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  9. Delphi study round one – A study across NHS England Hospital Trust operating theatres (11 November 22)

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  10. Steven Shorrock - Twenty five years: Reflections on the practice of improving work (6 November 2022)

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  11. CIEHF - Community Diagnostic Centres: 10 Human Factors/ergonomic principles

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  12. Putting the human at the centre of quality management - Brian Edwards' speaker abstract from the 5th European pharmacovigilance congress

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  13. Systems-based approaches for learning from patient safety incidents: a recent discussion at the Patient Safety Management Network

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  14. AHRQ - TeamSTEPPS teamwork system

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  15. The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Why can we not perceive our own abilities?

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  16. The surgical approach to Human Factors: an interview with Peter Brennan (The Human Factors Podcast, 20 June 2022)

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  17. Researching nurses’ adherence to patient safety guidelines in emergency departments (28 June 2022)

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  18. Applying human factors to improve patient safety in healthcare (thesis by Peter Brennan, April 2019)

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  19. Patient Safety Movement webinar: Embracing Human Factors to unleash safety innovation in healthcare (9 May 2022)

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  20. The role of human factors in improving patient safety (16 May 2022)

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  21. Which is better? Learning by listening or learning by talking? (Judy Walker, 17 May 2022)

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  22. Paediatric emergencies - Human factors overview

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  23. Observational tools, Human Factors and patient safety: a recent discussion at the Patient Safety Management Network

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  24. More than just physical blog: Reconciliation (21 November 2021)

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  25. How human factors can enhance the delivery of equality, diversity, and inclusion (2 February 2022)

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