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An evaluation of the effects of human factors and ergonomics on health care and patient safety practices: a systematic review.

Mao XY, Jia PL, Zhang LH, Zhao PJ, Chen Y, Zhang MM. PLoS One. 2015;10:e0129948.

This systematic review of human factors engineering interventions in health care found that most published studies evaluated the effects of HFE on health care workers instead of patient-level outcomes and few addressed the cost-effectiveness of these interventions.

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