Identification of human errors during device-related accident investigations.

Identification of human errors during device-related accident investigations.

A minisystem is the smallest system that can deliver a single clinical benefit. Healthcare is delivered to patients through an assemblage of minisystems. It is the failure of these minisystems that reportedly results in between 44,000 and 98,000 iatrogenic deaths in the United States annually. Accid...

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Published in:IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 23, 3 (2004).
Main Author: Shepherd, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
United States.
Clinical data acquisition.
Corrective actions.
Data analysis.
Defibrillator.
Device-related accident investigations.
Engineering data acquisition.
Healthcare.
Human error identification.
Iatrogenic deaths.
Minisystem.
Operator error.
Single clinical benefit.