Applying Human Factors to the Design of Medical Equipment: Patient-Controlled Analgesia
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
- Vol. 14 (4) , 253-263
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009928203196
Abstract
Objective. Medical instruments commonly have poorly designed user interfaces that promote human errors with life-threatening consequences. The primary hypothesis of this study was that a specific...Keywords
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