Emergency medical equipment storage: Benefits of visual cues tested in field and simulated settings

Human Factors

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 958-972

  Grundgeiger, Tobias ^a   Harris, Bonnie ^b   Ford, Nicholas ^b   Abbey, Michael ^c   Sanderson, Penelope M ^b   Venkatesh, Balasubramanian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equipment design; Health care quality improvement; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NURSING;

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETRIEVAL TIME; SUBJECTIVE WORKLOAD; VISUAL CUES;

EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOENGINEERING; CIVIL DEFENSE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CIVIL DEFENSE; CUES; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84898858842     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813514605     Document Type: Article

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