Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety: SEIPS in Action [Hardcover]

1. Improving Health Care Safety. 2. Systems Thinking in HealthCare Safety. 3. SEIPS or Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety.?4. Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety: SEIPS in Action. 5. Case Studies and Examples of SEIPS in Action. 6. Reflections on SEIPS in Action and Looking Forward. 7. Conclusions.?

This exciting and topical title will appeal to students and professionals in the fields of healthcare, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, other health professions, and pharmaceuticals. It will also appeal to industrial and systems engineers, biomedical engineers, HFE professionals and designers.

• Presents work system design for safety; practical approaches and tips
• Showcases SEIPS in action Offers patient safety and health care worker safety/well-being insights
• Includes up-to-date case studies throughout the healthcare sector
• Provides reflections on challenges and insights for research

Pascale Carayon, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is the Founding Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering; she led the interdisciplinary Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She received her Engineer diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Carayan has over three decades of HFE research experience analyzing, designing and improving complex work systems such as those in healthcare.

Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety describes a conceptual framework (SEIPS or Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) based on the Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) discipline and associated human-centered design (HCD) apprlÃ@