Search for dissertations about: "ergonomics in health care"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words ergonomics in health care.
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6. Learning for safety in health care and air traffic control
Abstract : Introduction Risk management in enterprises, organisations and companies has had a long and complicated history. During the eighties, and at least during the beginning of the nineties, the notion concerning risk management was that if an accident happened in an otherwise perfect system it was due to the human operator in some way being the cause of the error. READ MORE
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7. Usability Evaluation of Medical Technology: Investigating the Effect of User Background and Users' Expertise
Abstract : Medical devices play a major role in diagnosis and therapeutics in the healthcare systems. The basic features of medical devices concern safety and efficient clinical performance. Nowadays, usability evaluation is an important part of the design process of medical devices. READ MORE
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8. The hospital-wide patient flow - looking beyond borders for improved productivity
Abstract : Demand for healthcare is increasing at a faster pace than hospitals’ capacity. In search of new paths to reverse this development policy makers and healthcare managers look for new methodologies or concepts to improve productivity. One such concept is flow efficiency, focusing on how to better support the throughput of patients, and productivity. READ MORE
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9. Social capital in healthcare : A resource for sustainable engagement in organizational improvement work
Abstract : Social capital, work engagement, working conditions, and leadership are concepts that have been studied previously, but there is lack of knowledge about what processes promote sustainable organizational improvement work in hospitals, and specifically, what leads healthcare professionals to engage in clinical developments.The overall aim of this thesis is to increase knowledge of how social capital and engagement contribute to sustainable organizational improvement work in hospitals and how social capital and engagement are created during organizational improvement work. READ MORE
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10. The Adoption of Ergonomic Innovations for Injury Prevention : Examples from the building construction and health care industries
Abstract : A good work environment is important for the individual, for industry and for society. The work environment research has, predominantly, targeted identification of problems and the measurement of the size of these problems. READ MORE