Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2018 Feb 7;3(2):197-204.
doi: 10.1016/j.adro.2018.01.002. eCollection 2018 Apr-Jun.

Promoting safety mindfulness: Recommendations for the design and use of simulation-based training in radiation therapy

Lukasz M Mazur  1   2 , Lawrence B Marks  1 , Ron McLeod  3 , Waldemar Karwowski  4 , Prithima Mosaly  1   2 , Gregg Tracton  1 , Robert D Adams  1 , Lesley Hoyle  1 , Shiva Das  1 , Bhishamjit Chera  1
Affiliations
Review

Promoting safety mindfulness: Recommendations for the design and use of simulation-based training in radiation therapy

Lukasz M Mazur et al. Adv Radiat Oncol. .

Abstract

There is a need to better prepare radiation therapy (RT) providers to safely operate within the health information technology (IT) sociotechnical system. Simulation-based training has been preemptively used to yield meaningful improvements during providers' interactions with health IT, including RT settings. Therefore, on the basis of the available literature and our experience, we propose principles for the effective design and use of simulated scenarios and describe a conceptual framework for a debriefing approach to foster successful training that is focused on safety mindfulness during RT professionals' interactions with health IT.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Consequences of suboptimal safety mindfulness during interactions with health information technology.,
Figure 2
Figure 2
How latent errors (organizational and workspace) might propagate through quality assurance (QA) steps and lead to active error (human error) in a complex sociotechnical system based on the Swiss cheese model.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Similar articles

See all similar articles

Cited by

References

    1. Bates D.W., Gawande A.A. Improving safety with information technology. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:2526–2534. - PubMed
    1. Jha A.K., DesRoches C.M., Campbell E.G. Use of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:1628–1638. - PubMed
    1. Institute of Medicine . National Academy Press; Washington, DC: 2016. Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. - PubMed
    1. The Joint Commision Sentinel event alert 54: Safe use of health information technology. https://jointcommission.org/sea_issue_54/ Available at. - PubMed
    1. Emergency Care Research Institute Top 10 patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations. http://ecri.org/PatientSafetyTop10 Available at.

LinkOut - more resources