Time to get off this pig's back? The human factors aspects of the mismatch between device and real-world knowledge in the health care environment

Journal of Patient Safety

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 124-131

  Nunnally, Mark E ^a   Bitan, Yuval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Human factors; Incident reporting; Infusion pumps; Medical devices; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749842131     PISSN: 15498417     EISSN: 15498425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jps.0000233827.90690.97     Document Type: Article

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