Improving performance reliability in surgical systems

Cognition, Technology and Work

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-333

  Benn, J ^a   Healey, A N ^a   Hollnagel, E ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Continuous quality improvement; Health care systems; High reliability organisations; Reliability; Resilience engineering; Safety management; Surgery; Teams

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL CARE; CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS; HIGH-QUALITY; HIGH-RELIABILITY; HIGH-RELIABILITY ORGANISATIONS; HIGH-RISK DOMAINS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONAL SAFETY; PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY; RESILIENCE ENGINEERING; SAFETY CULTURES; SAFETY INTERVENTIONS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM SAFETY; SYSTEMS FAILURE; TEAM WORKING; TEAMS; TIME SCALING; WORK SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 52349104288     PISSN: 14355558     EISSN: 14355566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10111-007-0092-x     Document Type: Article

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