Patient safety publications

• Carayon, P. “Macroergonomics in quality of care and patient safety”, In Human Factors in Organizational Design And Management - VII, edited by H. Luczak and K.J. Zink, IEA Press, Santa Monica, CA, pp.21-34, 2003.
• Carayon, P., Alvarado, C., Brennan, P., Gurses, A., Hundt, A., Karsh, B. and Smith, M. “Work system and patient safety”, In Human Factors in Organizational Design And Management - VII, edited by H. Luczak and K.J. Zink, IEA Press, Santa Monica, CA, pp.583-588, 2003.
• Carayon, P., Alvarado, C. and Hundt, A. Reducing workload and increasing patient safety through work and workspace design, Paper commissioned by the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI), University of Wisconsin-Madison, CQPI Technical Report No. 185, February 2003.
• Karsh, B.-T., Carayon, P., Smith, M., Skibinski, K., Thomadsen, B., Brennan, P. and Murray, M.E. “The University of Wisconsin-Madison multidisciplinary graduate certificate in patient safety”, to be published in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation, 2004.

SEIPS Pilot project – Systems engineering intervention in outpatient surgery centers

• Hundt, A., Carayon, P., Ayoub, P. and Alvarado, C. “Collecting workers’ perceptions of performance obstacles in outpatient surgery” Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference, Denver, Colorado, October 13-17, 2003.
• Carayon, P., Bogsdorf, A., Ayoub, P., Hundt, A. and Alvarado, C. “Making a community safer for patients: The development of the Madison Patient Safety Collaborative”, presented at the International Ergonomics Association Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 24-29, 2003.
• Carayon, P., Alvarado, C., Brennan, P., Hsieh, G.Y., Hundt, A., Smith, M. “A macroergonomic approach to patient process analysis: Application in ambulatory surgery”, presented at the International Ergonomics Association Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 24-29, 2003.
• Karsh, B. (2003). Macroergonomics in health care: improving work design to improve employee and patient safety. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting. 1404-1405.
• Hundt, A.S., Carayon, P., Springman, S.R., Smith, M., Florek, K., Sheth, R. and Dorshort, M. “Outpatient surgery and patient safety – The voice of the patient”, to be published in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation, 2004.
• Carayon, P., Alvarado, C.J., Hundt, A.S., Springman, S.R., Borgsdorf, A. and Hoonakker, P.L.T. “Employee questionnaire survey for assessing patient safety in outpatient surgery”, to be published in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation, 2004.
• Carayon, P., Hundt, A.S., Alvarado, C.J., Springman, S.R., Borgsdorf, A. and Jenkins, L., “Implementing a systems engineering intervention for improved patient safety – Example in outpatient surgery”, to be published in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation, 2004.
• Carayon, P., Gurses, A.P., Hundt, A.S., Ayoub, P. and Alvarado, C.J. “Performance obstacles and facilitators of healthcare providers” to be published in volume 4 of the series “Organizational Psychology and Health Care”, 2004.
• Alvarado, C.J. Carayon, P., and Hundt, A.S.”Patient safety climate (PSC) in outpatient surgery centers”, to be presented at the HFES’2004 conference, New Orleans, September 20-24, 2004.

EMR implementation in small clinics

• Carayon, P. and Smith, P. “Evaluating the human and organizational aspects of Information Technology implementation in a small clinic” In Systems, Social and Internationalization Design Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction edited by M.J. Smith and G. Salvendy, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2001, pp.903-907.
• Hundt, A.S., Carayon, P., Smith, P.D. and Kuruchittham, V. “A macroergonomic case study assessing electronic medical record implementation in a small clinic” Proceedings of the the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, September 30-October 4, 2002, Baltimore, MD, pp.1385-1388.

Work obstacles and facilitators, workload, quality of working life and quality of care among ICU nurses

• Questionnaire on Performance of ICU nurses

A macroergonomic work system analysis of diagnostic testing for process improvement

• Karsh, B. and Alper, S. J. (2004). Work system analysis: the key to understanding health care systems. To be published in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation.
• Hallock, B., Alper, S., and Karsh, B. (2003). Process improvement in an outpatient clinic: application of sociotechnical systems analysis. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting. 1406-1410.
• Hallock, B., Alper, S., and Karsh, B. (2003). A macroergonomic work system approach for process improvement in healthcare: The case of diagnostic testing. Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association Triennial Congress..

Development of a medical safety reporting system in primary care settings

• Hamilton-Escoto, K., Karsh, B., and Beasley, J. W. (2004). Multiple user considerations and their implications in medical error reporting system design. Human Factors. Submitted.
• Beasley, J., Hamilton, K., Karsh, B. (2003). Design Elements for a Primary Care Medical Error Reporting System. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 103(1), 56-59.
• Hamilton, K., Karsh, B., and Beasley, J. (2003). Medical error reporting system design: multiple user considerations and their implications. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting. 1549-1553.
• Karsh, B., Hamilton, K., and Beasley, J. (2002). On the development of a medical safety reporting system. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Work With Display Units.
• Beasley, J. W., Hamilton-Escoto, K., and Karsh, B. (2004). Human Factors in Primary Care. In P. Carayon (Ed.). Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient Safety. Under Review.

Organizational culture and job satisfaction among family physicians

• Karsh, B., Beasley, J., Hagenauer, M. (2004). Are electronic medical records associated with improved perceptions of the quality of medical records, working conditions, or quality of working life? Behaviour and Information Technology. In press.
• Beasley, J. W., Karsh, B., Sainfort, F., Hagenauer, M. E. Marchand, L. (2004). What is the quality of work life of family physicians in Wisconsin’s health care organizations? A WReN study. Wisconsin Medical Journal. Submitted.
• Karsh, B., Beasley, J., Hagenauer, M. E., Sainfort, F. (2001). Do electronic medical records improve the quality of medical records? In M.J. Smith and G. Salvendy (Eds.). Systems, Social and Internationalization Design Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction. (pp. 908-912) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Quality improvement in nursing homes

• Sainfort F, BC Booske, and B Karsh. Job and Organizational Determinants of Employee Perceptions of Nursing Home Quality. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Society for Health Systems Conference, Norcross, GA: Institute of Industrial Engineers, pp.143-152, 2001.
• Karsh, B., Booske, B., and Sainfort, F. (2002). Job and work environment predictors of turnover intention in long-term care facilities. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, 1399-1403.
• Karsh, B., Booske, B., Sainfort, F. (2003). Job and organizational determinants of nursing home employee commitment, job satisfaction and intent to turnover. Ergonomics. Submitted.
• Karsh, B., Booske, B., Sainfort, F. (2003). A new measure of organizational quality improvement environment tested among nursing home employees. Ergonomics. Submitted.

Working conditions in assisted living

• Wagner, J., Karsh, B., Sager, M. A., and Moberg, D. P. (2003). Relationships between job stressors, job satisfaction, and turnover intent in the assisted living sector of long term care. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting

Bar coding technology and patient and employee safety

• Karsh, B. (2004). Beyond usability for patient safety: designing effective technology implementation systems. British Medical Journal: Quality and Safety in Healthcare. In press.
• Karsh, B. Holden, R. (2004). New technology implementation in health care. In P. Carayon (Ed.). Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient Safety. Under Review.
• Hamilton-Escoto, K., Hallock, M., Wagner, J., and Karsh, B. (2003). Sociotechnical systems analysis: a human factors engineering technique for analyzing systems. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety. Accepted.

Medication error reduction, technologies and human factors

• Carayon, P., Wetterneck, T.B., Hundt, A.S., Ozkaynac, M., Ram, P., DeSilvey, J., Hicks, B., Roberts, T.L., Enloe, M., Sheth, R. and Sobande, S. “Assessing nurse interaction with medication administration technologies: The development of observation methodologies”, to be presented at the WWCS’2004 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 29–July 2, 2004.
• Wetterneck,, T.B., Schroeder, M., Skibinski, K., Tanita Roberts, T.L. and Carayon, P. “Challenges with the performance of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in healthcare organizations”, to be presented at the HFES’2004 conference, New Orleans, September 20-24, 2004.
• Carayon, P., Wetterneck, T.B., Hundt, A.S., Ozkaynac, M., Ram, P., DeSilvey, P., Hicks, B., Roberts, T.L., Enloe, M., Sheth, R. and Sobande, S. “Observing nurse interaction with medication administration technologies”, to be published in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation, 2004.

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