Book contents
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Section 1 Design and Simulation
- Chapter 2 Use of Simulation and Patient Safety
- Chapter 3 Using Human-Centered Design to Create a Safer Anesthesia Workspace
- Section 2 Quality Improvement Tools
- Section 3 Reporting and Databases
- Section 4 Putting Tools into Practice
- Section 5 People, Behavior, and Communication
- Index
- References
Chapter 3 - Using Human-Centered Design to Create a Safer Anesthesia Workspace
from Section 1 - Design and Simulation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Section 1 Design and Simulation
- Chapter 2 Use of Simulation and Patient Safety
- Chapter 3 Using Human-Centered Design to Create a Safer Anesthesia Workspace
- Section 2 Quality Improvement Tools
- Section 3 Reporting and Databases
- Section 4 Putting Tools into Practice
- Section 5 People, Behavior, and Communication
- Index
- References
Summary
The design of the anesthesia workspace can have an enormous impact on errors, patient safety, and outcomes. Human-centered design (HCD) is a multidisciplinary field focused on how to design spaces and tools to maximize human performance. Bringing the lessons from HCD to the anesthesia workspace can improve patient safety and make clinicians more effective. Two medication safety projects at Seattle Children’s Hospital, new medication trays and a medication template, help to demonstrate how to deploy design principles in the operating room. Future improvements in patient safety in anesthesia will rely upon how providers interact with information systems, clinical tools, and one another, and the quality of these interactions is profoundly influenced by how these systems are designed.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023