Volume : I, Issue : XI, August - 2012

Human Factors to Minimize the Human Error and Improving Patient Safety

Sanjay Saproo, Dr. Sanjeev Bansal, Dr. Amit Kumar Pandey

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5000 types of medical devices are used by millions of health care providers around the world, device related problems are inevitable (1). Poor design, not user friendly and poor quality which is the part of the human factors will increase the risk of unexpected eakdown, excessive repair cost; enhance the equipment down time and premature failure of the equipment thus leading to the medical error and unsafe patient care. Human Factors is an important part of the healthcare delivery system which works effectively in order to prevent similar occurrences and align the entire system for action to be taken for prevention of any mishap, slip or medical error. Human factors take into account the human aspects which can increase the risk of such incidents in the first place (behavioural differences, emotion, perception, personality, decision–making, cognition, fatigue, stress, etc.).Further human factor emphasis the partnerships between the health sciences, human factors, Technology and systems engineering to improve patient safety

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Sanjay Saproo, Dr. Sanjeev Bansal, Dr. Amit Kumar Pandey Human Factors to Minimize the Human Error and Improving Patient Safety Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.I, Issue.XI August 2012

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