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Increasing Patient Safety Through Resilient Design: Using Human Factors Engineering and Environmental Support Mechanisms to Reduce Potentials of Hospital Acquired Infection

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Abstract

The ability to effectively curtail the spread of dangerous disease causing bacteria within care delivery environments is a growing concern with evolving challenges. Current research on inert surfaces role in facilitating microbial spread is becoming more salient [4,5,6,7]. Furthermore, the recognition that infection prevention and pathogen transfer processes reliant on human behavior alone are unsatisfactory to effective mitigation [7, 8]. Using the context and principles of Human Factors and Ergonomics and Resilience Engineering to employ environmentally-based design parameters that improve inherent surface resistance to pathogens could be a key factor to controlling their spread [10, 13,14,15,16,17,18]. The objective of this article is to compile evidence of emergent alternative strategies in promoting high reliability healthcare delivery system design to better understand how infection prevention surface technology and Human Factors-based moderation can be studied in concert with one another and ultimately leveraged to their greatest effect.

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Notes

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    Perfectus Biomed. Sharklet 002 Report ID: PB041-002-V1 Evaluation of Microorganisms Colonization on Plastic Surfaces. May 26. (2016).

  2. 2.

    Mettetal, M.R; Drinker, M.C; May, R.M; Parker, A.E; Sande, M.K; Stevenson, B.C; Mann E.E; Reddy, S.T. Surface Micropattern Resists Bacterial Contamination Transferred by Healthcare Practitioners. Sharklet Technologies, Inc. Aurora, CO. In cooperation with the Center for Biofilm Engineering and Department of Mathematical Sciences; Montana State, Bozeman, MT; Work Education and Lifelong Learning Simulation Center of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO.

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    Adapted from Sappi North America. Neoterix™ ST the Sharklet™ Story. Used with the permission of Sappi North America. (2017).

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Lisa Sundahl Platt is the Founder/CEO of UMNSystems LLC, a paid consultant of Sappi North America. Mike Greene is currently an employee of Sappi North America, manufacturer of Neoterix™ ST release paper. The authors of this work contributed to the concept formulation and supportive literature review. Both contributed to the writing, revision, and read and approved the final manuscript.

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Platt, L.S., Greene, M. (2018). Increasing Patient Safety Through Resilient Design: Using Human Factors Engineering and Environmental Support Mechanisms to Reduce Potentials of Hospital Acquired Infection. In: Duffy, V., Lightner, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 590. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60483-1_1

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