id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-253548-izya7nws Catchpole, Ken Frontiers in Human Factors: Embedding Specialists in Multi-disciplinary efforts to Improve Healthcare. 2020-09-09 .txt text/plain 4220 202 43 Despite the application of a huge range of human factors (HF) principles in a growing range of care contexts, there is much more that could be done to realize this expertise for patient benefit, staff wellbeing and organizational performance. While healthcare also contains many different groups who have a strong interest in improving human work (e.g. HR professionals, organisational development specialists, clinical risk, patient safety and quality improvement advisors), the HF professional can provide much-needed 'added-value' to multidisciplinary team efforts to jointly optimise overall organisational performance and human wellbeing. Despite a growing recognition of the need and value of HF in clinical work across the world, one consequence of the persistent misunderstanding of systems safety science is that few opportunities exist in clinical settings for qualified HF professionals, limiting the availability of appropriately sophisticated HF expertise 27 . Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety ./cache/cord-253548-izya7nws.txt ./txt/cord-253548-izya7nws.txt