A new framework for optimisation and effectiveness of service operations approaches to reduce human errors in healthcare Online publication date: Wed, 07-Jul-2021
by Hadi Balouei Jamkhaneh; Reza Shahin; Maria Chiara Leva
International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics (IJHFE), Vol. 8, No. 2, 2021
Abstract: Human errors in healthcare socio-technical systems can be a serious threat to patient safety. This study provides an integrated and systematic framework for assessing and optimising service operations approaches (SOA) that are effective in human errors reduction. For this, a pilot study was used to test the combination of three methods for a complete process to help identify ways to improve exposure to human error by selecting an optimal strategy. Based on experts' opinions, we performed a risk assessment using failure modes and effects analysis for each human error and a risk priority number (RPN) was assigned for each failure mode. Next, a house of quality approach was applied to identify the impact that different SOAs may have on improving human errors in healthcare. Ultimately, in order to select the optimal SOA, a zero one goal programming model was used to consider simultaneously resources limitations and the error reduction.
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