IJQHC Supplement: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare

The IJQHC Human Factors Supplement is now available online - https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/issue/33/Supplement_1

Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) is not part of the day to day work processes in healthcare. ISQua believes that there is a need to integrate the HFE theories and method into clinical and management practice. To that end, we have worked closely with the International Ergonomics Association to develop the free IJQHC Supplement published online this month so that we can spread the importance of HFE in Healthcare.

Our Guest Editors Pascale Carayon, Sue Hignett and Sara Albolino have produced a series of papers by HFE experts that are very relevant in this COVID period of time. This state of the art supplement is a valuable resource, to learn about how to implement new ways to improve processes, patient safety and quality of care.

Dr Kathleen L. Mosier, President of the International Ergonomics Association added that "The first 2021 Supplement to the International Journal for Quality in Health Care is a landmark volume. It represents a collaboration between ISQua, the global network of health care stakeholders, and the International Ergonomics Association, the global federation of human factors/ergonomics societies. The authors are THE world-class experts in the application of Human Factors/Ergonomics (HFE) principles and methods – in particular, the HFE systems approach – to all aspects of health care and patient safety. In particular, articles in the Supplement illustrate the essential contribution of HFE to address COVID-19 challenges and provide a critical resource for health care system designers and managers."

List of Supplement Articles:

Human factors and ergonomics systems approach to the COVID-19 healthcare crisis

Pascale Carayon, Shawna Perry

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa109

Human factors/ergonomics to support the design and testing of rapidly manufactured ventilators in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sue Hignett, Janette Edmonds, Tracey Herlihey, Laura Pickup, Richard Bye ...

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa089

HFE at the frontiers of COVID-19. Human factors/ergonomics to support the communication for safer care in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sara Albolino, Giulia Dagliana, Michela Tanzini, Elena Beleffi, Francesco Ranzani ...

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa110

Frontiers in human factors: embedding specialists in multi-disciplinary efforts to improve healthcare

Ken Catchpole, Paul Bowie, Sarah Fouquet, Joy Rivera, Sue Hignett

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa108

Reengineer healthcare: a human factors and ergonomics framework to improve the socio-technical system

Raquel Santos

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa087

Is the ‘never event’ concept a useful safety management strategy in complex primary healthcare systems?

Paul Bowie, Diane Baylis, Julie Price, Pallavi Bradshaw, Duncan McNab ...

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa101

Human factors engineering for medical devices: European regulation and current issues

Sylvia Pelayo, Romaric Marcilly, Tommaso Bellandi

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa103

Innovating health care: key characteristics of human-centered design

Marijke Melles, Armagan Albayrak, Richard Goossens

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa127

Frontiers in human factors: integrating human factors and ergonomics to improve safety and quality in Latin American healthcare systems

Carlos Aceves-González, Yordán Rodríguez, Carlos Manuel Escobar-Galindo, Elizabeth Pérez, Beatriz Gutiérrez-Moreno ...

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa135

Will the COVID-19 pandemic transform infection prevention and control in surgery? Seeking leverage points for organizational learning

Giulio Toccafondi, Francesco Di Marzo, Massimo Sartelli, Mark Sujan, Molly Smyth ...

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa137

Human factors: the pharmaceutical supply chain as a complex sociotechnical system

Brian Edwards, Charles A Gloor, Franck Toussaint, Chaofeng Guan, Dominic Furniss

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa102

Human factors/ergonomics work system analysis of patient work: state of the science and future directions

Nicole E Werner, Siddarth Ponnala, Nadia Doutcheva, Richard J Holden

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa099