Psychology in the operating theatre: the importance of colour and cognition in the redesign of clinical systems for medication safety.
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Abstract
Medication errors in anaesthesia remain a leading cause of patient harm. Compared with conventional methods, use of the international colour-code standard on syringes and medication trays allows significantly more errors to be detected, and does so under conditions of cognitive load. Testing methods from experimental psychology provide important new insights for human factors research in anaesthesia and health care.
Medical subject headings
- Anesthesia
- Anesthesiology