Special issue on ergonomic research and patient safety

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Volume 8 Issue 5 2007

Patient safety - an old and a new issue
365 – 369
Sebastiano Bagnara; Riccardo Tartaglia


Status boards in accident & emergency departments: support for shared cognition
371 – 380
R. L. Wears; S. J. Perry


Managing teams managing crises: principles of teamwork to improve patient safety in the Emergency Room and beyond
381 – 394
E. Salas; M. A. Rosen; H. King


Work design and patient safety
395 – 428
P. Carayon; C. J. Alvarado; A. Schoofs Hundt


The systems of surgery
429 – 443
A. N. Healey; C. A. Vincent


Managing patients' demands: the practitioners' point of view
445 – 468
P. Falzon; V. Mollo


Patient safety by treatment standardization and process navigation - a systems ergonomics management concept
469 – 479
W. Friesdorf; B. Buss; I. Marsolek


A team-based risk modification programme to make health care safer
481 – 494
P. Barach


How to create a safety culture in the healthcare system: the experience of the Tuscany Region
495 – 507
T. Bellandi; S. Albolino; C. R. Tomassini