Rapid Development of a Hospital Checklist in a Time of COVID-19 Academic Article

abstract

• The discipline of human factors and ergonomics is largely focused on principled development of generalizable solutions. The process is typically slow, spanning months, even years. A crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic presents a different problem. How can human factors and ergonomics professionals react quickly, within hours or days, to provide viable solutions to unanticipated problems as they become apparent? Here we report on a small project in which we were able to respond rapidly to an emergent COVID-19 requirement. Given time constraints, we had no opportunity to follow a systematic analysis and design strategy. Our development and testing strategies reveal lessons that can be applied more generally to development of human factors and ergonomics interventions within emerging crises.

authors

• Peres, S Camille

published proceedings

• ERGONOMICS IN DESIGN

author list (cited authors)

• Lintern, G., Motavalli, A. l., Chua, Z., Rantanen, E. M., Peres, S. C., & Boorman, D.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Lintern, Gavan||Motavalli, Al||Chua, Zarrin||Rantanen, Esa M||Peres, S Camille||Boorman, Daniel

publication date

• October 2022

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Ergonomics in Design  Journal

keywords

• Checklists
• Covid-19
• Crisis Response
• Health Care Safety
• Human Factors In Health Care
• Infection Control
• Rapid Design

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1064804620963687

start page

• 5

end page

• 13

volume

• 30

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1064804620963687