Thesis
Perceptual error in medical practice
- Alternative title:
- an examination of perceptual errors in clinical settings
- Abstract:
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Introduction
Medical errors are major hazards, and lapses in non-technical skills such as situational awareness contribute to most incidents. Risks are concentrated in acute care, and in crisis situations clinicians can apparently ignore vital information. Poor workplace ergonomics contributes to risk.
Existing work into perceptual errors offers insights, but these phenomena have been little researched in medicine. This thesis considers medical non-technical skills and how they a... Expand abstract
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Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-02
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Greig, P
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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