Human Factor in Safe Health Care

Abstract

Over the past half century, health care has seen incredible progress related to reducing the frequency and severity of harm to patient health and life in the delivery of health care. Nevertheless, the attention of health care scientists and practitioners has begun to increase. The sources of adverse events have come to the attention of health care scientists and practitioners, such as human factor, extra-organizational causes, self-destructive behavior of the patient, which today changes the distribution of sources of adverse events. The foundation for building a strategic ladder of safe health care should have been based on the management of deviations related to illness, effective communication, patient education, and others.