ABSTRACT
Patients are increasingly encouraged to take an active role in managing their health and health care. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare delivery, and policies have brought to the forefront the "work" patients, families, and other non-professionals perform in pursuit of health. Volume I provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for the emerging discipline of Patient Ergonomics – the science of patient work.
The Patient Factor: Theories and Methods for Patient Ergonomics, Volume I defines Patient Ergonomics, explains its importance, and situates it in a broader historical and societal context. It reviews applicable theories and methods from human factors/ergonomics and related disciplines, across domains including consumer technology, patient-professional communication, self-care, and patient safety.
The Patient Factor is ideal for academics working in health care and patient-centered research, their students, human factors practitioners working in healthcare organizations or at technology companies, frontline healthcare professionals, and leaders of healthcare delivery organizations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|18 pages
Introduction to Patient Ergonomics
part Section II|63 pages
Patient Ergonomics Theories
chapter 3|23 pages
Physical Patient Ergonomics
chapter 4|21 pages
Macroergonomics of Patient Work
part Section III|82 pages
Patient Ergonomics Domains
chapter 5|22 pages
Consumer Health Information Technology
part Section IV|82 pages
Patient Ergonomics Methods
chapter 9|12 pages
Field Methods for Patient Ergonomics
chapter 10|17 pages
Design and Usability Methods
part Section V|14 pages
Conclusion