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Dhillon (mechanical engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada) outlines basic concepts and methods in general human reliability, errors, and human factors, and explains the status of research on human reliability and error in medical systems. After a review of useful mathematical concepts, he covers fundamentals of human factors and explains nine methods for performing human reliability and error analysis in health care. He examines human error in medication and anesthesia, looks at factors related to medical devices, and presents mathematical models for predicting human reliability and error in medical systems. The book will be useful for health care professionals, human factors specialists, and biomedical engineers.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Easy to read, with concrete data from major studies conducted over the last 20 years, and an extensive bibliography.
Book Description
Human reliability and error have become a very important issue in health care, owing to the vast number of associated deaths each year. For example, according to the findings of the Institute of Medicine in 1999, around 100000 Americans die each year because of human error. This makes human error in health care the eighth leading cause of deaths in the US. Moreover, the total annual national cost of the medical errors is estimated at between $17 billion and $37.6 billion. There are very few books on this subject, and none of them covers it at a significant depth. The need for a book presenting the basics of human reliability, human factors and comprehensive information on error in medical systems is essential. This book meets that need.
Book Info
Univ. of Ottawa, Canada. Discusses the role of human error as the eighth leading cause of deaths in the United States and considers the annual national costs of these medical errors. Presents the basics of human reliability, human factors, and comprehensive information on error in the medical system.
From the Publisher
Health care and safety professionals, administrators, students, human-factors/psychology specialists, biomedical engineers and health care researchers. Rating
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