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Areas of interest |
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People |
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• 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
• Inside stories: the patient’s experience
• Designing patients’ participation
• Designing competences for patient safety
• Elder people and safety
• Professional disease
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Organization |
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• 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
• Accidents/incidents reporting systems and organizational learning
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Design |
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• Evidence based design
• Emergency design
• Wayfinding and layout
• Healthcare architecture and organization
• Safety by design
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Human and Technology interaction |
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• 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
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Good practices and ergonomic solutions |
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• Medication errors
• Infection control
• Risks in OR, ICU and ER
• Errors in radiology and laboratory
• Patient falls
• Methods for benchmarking of the best practices
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Occupational ergonomics and health professional safety in hospital |
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• Occupational stress
• Patient handling ergonomics and muscleskeletal disorders
• Occupational injuries and accidents
• Epidemiological approaches
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Scientific Programme
Heps 2008 Closing Statement
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