by Professor Janet Anderson1 & Dr Satyan Chari2,3 1Professor of Human Factors, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University 2Adjunct fellow, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems 3Program Director – CEQ Bridge Labs, Clinical Excellence Queensland The field…
By Dana Womack, Ph.D., RN, FAMIA, and Christine Jefferies, MSN, RN The Covid-19 pandemic was a shock to hospital work systems around the globe. Over a short period, hospitals experienced a dramatic shift in the type and volume of services…
Members from the Resilience Engineering Association explain concepts related to Resilience and Resilience Engineering. The video follows a vox pop style with spontaneous answers. It includes examples from different domains aviation, energy and healthcare. Click here to access the video.…
By Francois Jaulin and Frédéric Martin (co founders Patient Safety Database and SafeTeam Academy) In 2016, authors reported that medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the United States and among the top ten causes of death…
By Federico Bilotta, Alessio Tramontana, Francesco Pugliese (Department of Anaesthesiology, “Umberto I” Policlinic-Hospital, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy) We embraced Resilience engineering (RE) in our Department of Anaesthesiology as a multidisciplinary approach to improve care delivery and patients’ safety and…
By Mark Sujan, Laura Pickup and Peter McCulloch on behalf of the RESPOND project team Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford Resilience Engineering and its healthcare-specific incarnation Resilient Health Care are coming of age, with the first Resilience…
REA Special Webinar Series on COVID-19 Talk 03.Webinar and summary prepared by Sheuwan Chuang (Taiwan), Laurin Mooney (USA), David Provan (Australia), Elizabeth Lay (USA), Ivonne Herrera (Norway) From talk description: The talk explores insights through HRO and RE lenses, considering…
By: Beth Lay Asher Balkin is a Research Engineer at the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Asher has worked in fields as diverse as public health, international security, surgical research, and human/automation interaction.Following are notes…
The Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) The Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) is a research-intensive institute located at Macquarie University, Sydney. Founded by director Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite in 2007, AIHI is part of the rapidly growing Faculty of Medicine,…
What knowledge, strategies and practices do we have at hand to respond in a flexible manner to COVID-19? Lessons learned from Resilience Engineering and Societal Resilience April 20 By Vanessa Becker Bertoni The speakers Martina Ragosta (Italy), Johan Bergström (Sweden),…