Special Issue on Care Transitions in Healthcare: A human factors perspective
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-01-31
影响因子: 3.145
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:工业 - 2区
• 小类 : 人体工程学 - 1区
• 小类 : 心理学:应用 - 2区
Overview
Seamless care across the health and community care continuum is a strong driver across the globe. Healthcare is a multi-provider, multi-location complex service bridging public and private funding and resources. Care transitions occur in many locations and time points in healthcare, e.g.: shift changes or handovers, transfer between wards, units, facilities, locations or during discharge to the patient’s home. Problems are noted when patient care has to negotiate the transition between providers or locations. To this date the volume of Ergonomics and Human Factors (EHF) work exploring the socio-technical components of care transitions is low.
This special issue examines the role of EHF in aiding the transitions of care across healthcare. It investigates socio-technical systems, communications, processes and tools developed to assess and improve the care transition. There will be a focus on applied research, empirical studies, field studies and theory developments on the activities, processes, and human factors of the transition across care boundaries
We welcome papers that focus on any aspect of the care continuum that explore the transitions of care including:
- case studies involving care transitions
- transitions from internal service to service within organizations
- transitions from internal to external delivery especially acute care to long term community care
- studies that identify or model barriers or facilitators of the transition process
- uses of EHF tools to explore care transitions
- research which uses novel methods to evaluate care transitions