It's time to bring human factors to primary care policy and practice.
Health information technology
Human factors
Primary care
Journal
Applied ergonomics
ISSN: 1872-9126
Titre abrégé: Appl Ergon
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0261412
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2020
May 2020
Historique:
received:
10
12
2018
revised:
04
02
2020
accepted:
11
02
2020
entrez:
17
3
2020
pubmed:
17
3
2020
medline:
22
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Primary health care is a complex, highly personal, and non-linear process. Care is often sub-optimal and professional burnout is high. Interventions intended to improve the situation have largely failed. This is due to a lack of a deep understanding of primary health care. Human Factors approaches and methods will aid in understanding the cognitive, social and technical needs of these specialties, and in designing and testing proposed innovations. In 2012, Ben-Tzion Karsh, Ph.D., conceived a transdisciplinary conference to frame the opportunities for research human factors and industrial engineering in primary care. In 2013, this conference brought together experts in primary care and human factors to outline areas where human factors methods can be applied. The results of this expert consensus panel highlighted four major research areas: Cognitive and social needs, patient engagement, care of community, and integration of care. Work in these areas can inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovations in Primary Care. We provide descriptions of these research areas, highlight examples and give suggestions for future research.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32174365
pii: S0003-6870(20)30027-2
doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103077
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
103077Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest None Declared.