Human reliability assessment of a critical nursing task in a radiotherapy treatment process

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-97

  Chadwick, Liam ^a   Fallon, Enda F ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

HEART; Human error; Human reliability assessment; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEART; NURSING; RADIOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN ERROR ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; TECHNOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING CARE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80052413585     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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