1st Edition

Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety 2011 Proceedings on the International Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety (HEPS 2011), Oviedo, Spain, June 22-24, 2011

    528 Pages
    by CRC Press

    The vision of HEPS is represented by the bridge connecting the past and future of healthcare services, as well as ergonomists and clinicians, patients and providers. Previous HEPS conferences (Florence 2005 and Strasbourg 2008) successfully contributed to highlight and develop the contribution of ergonomics to patient safety, thanks to the participation of researchers, practitioners and patient advocates.

    The third HEPS conference held in Oviedo, Spain from 22-24 June, 2011 was jointly organized by IEA, AEE and SIE and focused on the challenges healthcare ergonomics faces in designing healthcare services as the co-product of the interaction between clinicians and patients. HEPS 2011 deals in particular with specific tracks dedicated to patient centred design of biomedical devices, intelligent information systems and clinical pathways for the acute and chronic conditions.

    Oviedo has shown to be an enchanting venue to host HEPS. Its convivial atmosphere has favoured the interactions between ergonomists, clinicians and patients. The scientific contributions and the patient stories successfully intertwined in the plenary and interactive sessions, to finally evolve in a consensus document on healthcare ergonomics and patient safety.

    Foreword
    Organization
    Main Lectures
    Patient handling interventions
    People—designing competences for patient safety
    Cognitive processes and clinical decision making
    Naturalistic decision making and sensemaking process in the clinical teams
    Human error in clinical pathways
    Healthcare ergonomics litigations
    Communicating the healthcare experience
    Designing the healthcare experience
    Inside stories: The patient’s experience
    Designing patients’ participation
    Designing competences for patient safety
    Elder people and safety
    System reliability and patient safety
    Resilience engineering for patient safety
    Simulation for training
    Healthcare quality and ergonomics
    Care in hospital, ambulatory settings, long-term care and at home
    Organizational culture/climate and patient safety
    Error analysis methods
    Organizational design of healthcare systems
    Clinical risk management and medical performances
    Homecare and safety
    Evidence based design
    Wayfinding and layout
    Healthcare architecture and organization
    Safety by design
    Information technology and learning reporting systems
    Design for usability for surgical and medical devices
    Healthcare information technology, such as electronic health record, computerized provider order entry, bar coding medication administration
    Human-computer interaction and usability
    Maintenance of biomedical devices and patient safety
    New services and tools for patient safety
    Medication errors
    Infection control
    Risks in OR, ICU and ER
    Errors in radiology and laboratory
    Patient falls
    Methods for benchmarking of the best practices
    Occupational stress
    Patient handling ergonomics and muscleskeletal disorders
    Occupational injuries and accidents
    Epidemiological approaches
    Miscellaneous

    Biography

    Sara Albolino, Sebastiano Bagnara, Tommaso Bellandi, Javier Llaneza, Gustavo Rosal-Lopez, Riccardo Tartaglia