Human Factors Hub

Alvarado, CJ. (2005). The physical environment in Health care. In P. Carayon, P. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah. p.287-321.

Amalberti R, Woland L. (1997) Human error in aviation. In Soekha H, ed. Aviation Safety. VSP, Utrecht. p91-108.

Carayon, P. (2007) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah.

Carthey, J. & Clarke, J. (2009).  The ‘How to Guide’ for Implementing Human Factors in Healthcare.  Patient Safety First.

Chisholm CD, Collison EK, Nelson DR et al. (2000). Emergency department workplace interruptions: are emergency physicians "interrupt-driven" and "multitasking"? Academic Emergency Medicine; 7 (11):1239-43.

Dawson, D. and Reid, K. (1997). Fatigue, alcohol and performance impairment. Nature, 388,23.

De Leval, M et al. (2000) Human factors and cardiac surgery: a multicenter study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 119. p.661-672.

Flynn, R; Winter, J; Sarak, C. and Raduma, M.  (2009) Human Factors in Patient Safety: Review of Topics and Tools.   World Health Organisation (WHO).

Flin, R., O’Connor, P. & Crichton, M. (2008). Safety at the Sharp End: A Guide to Non-Technical Skills. Farnham: Ashgate.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  (1996). Do it by Design: An Introduction to Human factors. Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

HSE (1999) Reducing Error and Influencing Behaviour. HSG48, London: HSE books.

HSE. (2010) Human factors: Fatigue. http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/ fatigue.htm

HSE. (2010) Human factors: Workload. http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/ workload.htm

HSE. (2010) Human factors: Shift Handover. http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/ topics/ shift-handover.htm

Itoh, K; Anderson, HB; Madsen, MD. (2007). Safety Culture in Health Care. In P. Carayon, P. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah. p199-217.

Kirwan, B. and Ainsworth, L. (Eds.) (1992). A guide to task analysis. Taylor and Francis.

Latino, RJ. (2008). The effects of distractions on Human Performance. Briefings on Patient Safety.  June 2008.

Leonard, M., Graham, S. & Bonacum, D. (2004) The human factor: the critical importance of effective teamwork and communication in providing safe care. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 13, 85-90.

Murphy, LR.  (2005). Job Stress in Health Care Workers. In P. Carayon, P. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah. p161-181.

Norman, Donald A. (1988): The Design of Everyday Things. New York, Doubleday.
 
Norman, Donald A. (1983): Design Rules Based on Analyses of Human Error. In Communications of the ACM, 26 (4) pp. 254-258.

Rasmussen, J. (1982). Human Errors: A taxonomy for describing human malfunction in industrial installations. Journal of Occupational Accidents, 4, 311-335.

Reason, J. (1990). Human Error. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press.

Reason, J. (2000). Human error: models and management. BMJ Mar 2000; 320: 768–770.

Reason J. Beyond the organisational accident: the need for ‘error wisdom’ on the front line. QSHC 2004;13:28–33.

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. (2006).  Bening Human, Being Safer: An Education Module on Human Factors in General Practice.

Sternberg, Robert J. (1996): Cognitive Psychology. 2nd. Ed.. Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

Yukl, G. (2008) Leadership in Organizations. (6th ed) New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

West, M. (2004) Effective Teamwork: Practical Lessons from Organizational Research (2nd Ed). Leicester: BPS Blackwell.

BMJ Quality Editorial, The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction.

David Woods, Human Factors Research to Improve Patient Safety.

James Reason, Understanding Adverse Events.

Pat Crosskerry, Importance of Cognitive Errors.

Pascale Carayon, Safety By Design: The SEIPS Model.

John Banja, Normalisation of Deviance in healthcare delivery.

Rebecca Lawson, Contributory Factors Framework to analysing incidents.