Center for Health Care Human Factors. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Center for Health Care Human Factors. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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Center for Health Care Human Factors.

Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.

Human factors engineering has provided unique insights into designing solutions to address human error and system weaknesses that facilitate mistakes. Established within the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, this center provides training, supports research, and raises awareness of how designing around human factors can help improve health care safety.

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MEETING/CONFERENCE › MARYLAND MEETING/CONFERENCE

Patient Safety Certificate Program.

Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. December 4-8, 2017; Constellation Energy Building, Baltimore, MD.

JOURNAL ARTICLE › STUDY

Use of unit-based interventions to improve the quality of care for hospitalized medical patients: a national survey.

O'Leary KJ, Johnson JK, Manojlovich M, Astik GJ, Williams MV. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2017 Jul 21; [Epub ahead of print].

JOURNAL ARTICLE › COMMENTARY

Administering and monitoring high-alert medications in acute care.

Cajanding JMR. Nurs Stand. 2017;31:42-52.

JOURNAL ARTICLE › STUDY

Pictograms, units and dosing tools, and parent medication errors: a randomized study.

Yin HS, Parker RM, Sanders LM, et al. Pediatrics. 2017;140:e20163237.

JOURNAL ARTICLE › STUDY

Implementation science for ambulatory care safety: a novel method to develop context-sensitive interventions to reduce quality gaps in monitoring high-risk patients.

McDonald KM, Su G, Lisker S, Patterson ES, Sarkar U. Implement Sci. 2017;12:79.

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