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This work details 100 examples of how to design a user interface that guards against potentially harmful use errors. The examples cover myriad features concerning hardware, software, and documents with emphasis placed on medical devices. This analysis is timely considering the intense focus within multiple worldwide industries to increase the safety of products, tolls, machines and systems, including those used by professionals and laypersons. This intense focus arises from the revelation that preventable error is among the leading causes of death, in the same magnitude of heart disease...

Developed to promote the design of safe, effective, and usable medical devices, Handbook of Human Factors in Medical Device Design provides a single convenient source of authoritative information to support evidence-based design and evaluation of medical device user interfaces using rigorous human factors engineering principles. It offers guidance on user-centric design supported by discussions of design issues, case studies, and examples.

The book sets the foundation with coverage of fundamental topics such as aligning the interactive nature of medical devices to...

Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis offers practical guidance on how to methodically discover and explain the root cause of a use error a mistake that occurs when someone uses a medical device. Covering medical devices used in the home and those used in clinical environments, the book presents informative case studies about the use errors (mistakes) that people make when using a medical device, the potential consequences, and design-based preventions.

Using clear illustrations and simple narrative explanations, the text:

• Covers the...