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Human Factor Associations With Safety Events In Radiation Therapy, Sheri M. Weintraub
Human Factor Associations With Safety Events In Radiation Therapy, Sheri M. Weintraub
Health Sciences Program Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
One important connection for all human beings is that we have a shared need for health care and are at some risk of experiencing medical error. Errors documented in the field of radiation therapy have included tragic levels of suffering and even death from preventable mistakes. Efforts to improve patient safety include an approach called incident learning that makes use of information about known errors to inform safetyimprovement strategy. The complexity of human contributing factors challenges those safety improvements. The problem addressed by this dissertation study is that radiation therapy puts patients at risk, and the incident learning systems designed …