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Human factors (improving human performance in care delivery)

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  1. Barriers

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

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

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    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. Human performance in biopharma operations — Your problem isn't error (9 November 2020)

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  2. Moving beyond human error In biopharma investigations and CAPA programs (16 November 2020)

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  3. Human factors: the pharmaceutical supply chain as a complex sociotechnical system (30 September 2020)

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  4. Innovating health care: key characteristics of human-centered design (17 October 2020)

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  5. ‘Bad apples’: time to redefine as a type of systems problem? (6 June 2013)

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  6. Delivering human factors at Christmas: how does Father Christmas do it? (16 December 2020)

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  7. Noise: How to overcome the high, hidden cost of inconsistent decision making (Harvard Business Review, 2016)

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  8. The human factor in cardiac surgery: errors and near misses in a high technology medical domain (1 July 2001)

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  9. Complex Systems and Safety (EEAST General Broadcast with Steven Shorrock)

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  10. The commodification of human decency: blog by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems (22 October 2020)

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  11. Reflection on the varieties of human work and how they apply to healthcare

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  12. Three spaces for work-as-disclosed: a blog by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems (15 October 2020)

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  13. Human factors in student paramedic practice

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  14. Racist like me — A call to self-reflection and action for white physicians

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  15. Human factors in healthcare: A systems-based approach to improve safety, efficiency and quality

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  16. Learning about healthcare work in a pandemic (17 September 2020)

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  17. Interruptions and distractions in healthcare: Improved safety with mindfulness (February 2014)

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  18. My checklist manifesto (July 2020)

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  19. CIEHF: Bedside guide routine tracheostomy care

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  20. Avoiding a second wave of medical errors: The importance of human factors in the context of a pandemic

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  21. Social emotion and patient safety: an important and understudied intersection

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  22. Human Factors in healthcare resources (NES)

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  23. Enhanced Significant Event Analysis (SEA)

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  24. CIEHF: The Human Connection I and II

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  25. Podcast: Dealing with fatigue in frontline NHS staff (April 2020)

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