Human Factor in Safe Health Care

Yury Voskanyan, Irina Shikina, Arthur Gasparyan, David Davidov

Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia;
Russian Institute of Health, Moscow, Russia

Cite: Voskanyan Y., Shikina I., Gasparyan A., Davidov D. Human Factor in Safe Health Care. J. Digit. Art Humanit., 3(1), 29-35. https://doi.org/10.33847/2712-8148.3.1_4

Abstract. Over the past half century, health care has seen incredible progress related to reducing the frequency and severity of harm to patient health and life in the delivery of health care. Nevertheless, the attention of health care scientists and practitioners has begun to increase. The sources of adverse events have come to the attention of health care scientists and practitioners, such as human factor, extra-organizational causes, self-destructive behavior of the patient, which today changes the distribution of sources of adverse events. The foundation for building a strategic ladder of safe health care should have been based on the management of deviations related to illness, effective communication, patient education, and others.

Keywords: health care, patient safety, safe technology, deviance management, human factor.

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Published online 29.06.2022