{"product_id":"9783031004742","title":"Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health: A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSynthesis Lectures on Technology and Health: A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eParush, Avi\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-02-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031004742\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-01602-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x191cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 202\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Morgan \u0026 Claypool","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45664263504012,"sku":"9783031004742","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031004742.jpg?v=1776082801","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031004742","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}