Understanding the underlying causes of incidents is critical to preventing their recurrence. When incidents, accidents or near misses happen “human error” is often cited as
Healthcare providers often face intense and dynamic situations which can result in avoidable harm to patients. Understanding human factors in healthcare can help to empower
One of the human’s great strengths is its adaptability. This endows us with resilience in changing situations or circumstances never before experienced. However, this same
We humans have gleefully embraced rapidly advancing science and technology, which is perhaps strange because inside us, and crucially inside our brains, little has changed
People make mistakes, we call it human error. In healthcare sometimes an error results in a patient being harmed. When this happens what is the
What is human performance improvement? Human performance improvement (HPI) is a systematic and scientific approach to identifying and analysing organisational and individual performance gaps or
