The Evolution of Neonatal Patient Safety
Human factors science teaches us that patient safety is achieved not by disciplining individual health care professionals for mistakes, but rather by designing systems that acknowledge human limitations and optimize the work environment for them. Incorporating human factors principles into simulation, debriefing, and quality improvement initiatives will strengthen the quality and resilience of the process improvements and systems changes that are developed. The future of patient safety in neonatology will require continued efforts to engineer and re-engineer systems that support the humans who are at the interface of delivering safe patient care.
Source: Clinics in Perinatology - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Nicole K. Yamada, Louis P. Halamek Source Type: research
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