{"product_id":"human-factors-in-healthcare-avi-parush-9783031004742","title":"Human Factors in Healthcare: A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement","description":"\u003cp\u003eHave you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it? This book walks you through a classic adverse event as a case study and shows you how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a practical guide to continuously improving your healthcare environment, processes, tools, and ultimate outcomes, through the discipline of human factors. Using this book, you as a healthcare professional can improve patient safety and quality of care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdverse events are a major concern in healthcare today. As the complexity of healthcare increases-with technological advances and information overload-the field of human factors offers practical approaches to understand the situation, mitigate risk, and improve outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part of this book presents a human factors conceptual framework, and the second part offers a systematic, pragmatic approach. Both the framework and the approach are employed to analyze and understand healthcare situations, both proactively-for constant improvement-and reactively-learning from adverse events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book guides healthcare professionals through the process of mapping the environmental and human factors; assessing them in relation to the tasks each person performs; recognizing how gaps in the fit between human capabilities and the demands of the task in the environment have a ripple effect that increases risk; and drawing conclusions about what types of changes facilitate improvement and mitigate risk, thereby contributing to improved healthcare outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Avi Parush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031004744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031004742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.46d","brand":"Avi Parush","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066347794687,"sku":"9783031004742","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10bda9b5-c4ca-4336-96c5-9a1a538bace7.jpg?v=1768678136","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-factors-in-healthcare-avi-parush-9783031004742","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}