MedicalHumanFactors.com
MedicalHFE.org
 

A website dedicated to Human Factors Engineering research approaches to improving reliability, quality, and safety in medicine and emergency services.

Rollin J. (Terry) Fairbanks, MD, MS, FACEP    [Bio]   [Publications]   [EPh Website] Research Emphasis:

--Human Factors Engineering Approaches to Patient Safety in Healthcare
--Patient Safety Research in Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Medicine
--Usability Research in Medical Devices and Health Information Technology

Recent Presentations

Researching the use of Emergency Pharmacists in the ED.  AHRQ Annual Conference 2008, Bethesda, MD:  September 8, 2008 [PDF (240kb)] new!

Human Factors Engineering and the Systems Approach to Patient Safety.  Interdepartmental Grand Rounds, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, NY:  Aug 20, 2008 [PDF (1MB)] new!

Results of the Emergency Pharmacist Outcomes Study. ASHP 2007 Mid-Year Clinical Meeting, Las Vegas, Dec 5, 2007 [PDF (330kb)] (also see more resources at www.EmergencyPharmacist.org)

Links: Human Factors Engineering (HFE) in Medicine

Research Collaborators and Partners:

University of Rochester Emergency Pharmacist Research
University of Rochester Department of Emergency Medicine
Usability Associates
University of Florida Jacksonville Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Buffalo Human Factors Engineering Program
University of Buffalo Healthcare Research
Monroe-Livingston Regional EMS Council
ASHP Research and Education Foundation
Helmet Fire Human Factors Consulting new!
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation

Other Human Factors Links

New!FDA's CDRH [video] describes integration of HFE into medical device design to reduce use error
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Red Forest Consulting
Cognitive Technologies Laboratory, University of Chicago
AHRQ PSNet
VA National Center for Patient Safety
University of Wisconsin System Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety
FDA Human Factors Program
Bad Human Factors Designs
Nielsen's Usability Heuristics
Usability Toolkit
University of Texas Human Factors Research Project
University of Maryland Human Factors Research Program
Virginia Tech Human Factors Engineering

Recommended Medical Human Factors and Patient Safety Courses

U. Wisconsin Madison: SEIPS Short Course on Human Factors Engineering & Patient Safety (August)
Mayo Clinic "Applying Human Factors in Health Care" (October)
HRET Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship (Annual)new!
Red Forest Consulting: Innovation & Managing Risk with Medical Devices (October)new!

EMS Patient Safety

MEPARS EMS Error Reporting System [www.EMSSafePatient.com]
EMS Provider Crash Safety

Recent Publications [Click here for All Publications]new!

Fairbanks RJ, Crittenden CN, O’Gara KG, Wilson MA, Pennington EC, Chin NP, Shah MN. EMS Provider Perceptions of the Nature of Adverse Events and Near Misses in Out-of-Hospital Care: An Ethnographic View. Academic Emergency Medicine July 2008; 15(7):633–640.

Fairbanks RJ and Wears RL. Hazards With Medical Devices: the Role of Design (editorial). Annals of Emergency Medicine (epub ahead of print).

Fairbanks RJ, Perry SJ, Venturino M, and Zwemer FL. Radiology in the Emergency Department:  Patient Safety Issues with Digital Imaging (Book Chapter). Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.  Croskerry, Cosby, Schenkel, and Wears, (Eds). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2008).

Fairbanks RJ and Gellatly AW. Human Factors Engineering and Safe Systems (Book Chapter). Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.  Croskerry, Cosby, Schenkel, and Wears, (Eds). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2008).

Fairbanks RJ, Rueckmann RA, Kolstee KE, Hays DP, Cobaugh DJ, Wears RL, Dewar KH, Martin HA, Davis CO, Schneider SM, Shah MN. Clinical Pharmacists in Emergency Medicine. In: Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (2008).

Contact: Terry Fairbanks