Proceedings of the First Workshop on




Human Error and Clinical Systems (HECS'99)



Edited by Chris Johnson.

Glasgow Accident Analysis Group Technical Report G99-1.

15-17th April 1999, University of Glasgow.

• Critical Incident Reporting in Anaesthesiology in Switzerland Using Standard Internet Technology
  S. Staender, M. Kaufman and D. Scheidegger, Dept. of Anaesthesia, Univ. of Basel.
  
  
• Risk Oriented Data Capture: Staged Modelling and Sample Solutions with Data Overload in Clinical Settings; Parallels and Paradigms
  J. Arthur and H. Wynn, The Risk Initiative, Warwick University.
  
  
• Towards the Identification of Prototypical Risk Situations in Anaesthesia
  A.S. Nyssen, Psychologie du Travail, Universite de Liege.

Interface Design and Evaluation

• Improving the User Interface to Increase Patient Throughput
  A. Gupta, J. Masthoff and P. Zwart,
  Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill.
  Philips Medical Systems, Brest, Netherlands.
  
  
• Problems Caused by Human Error in the Operation of a Clinical Data Collection System
  Barbara McManus, Department of Health Informatics, Univ. of Central Lancashire.

Diagnosis and Treatment Support Tools

• Safety and Computer Aided Design of Chemotherapy Plans
  P. Hammond, S. Modgil and J.C. Wyatt,
  Department of Informatics, Eastman Dental Health Institute and Health Knowledge Management Centre, University College London.
  
  
• Computer-Aided Mammography: A Case Study of Error Managment in a Skilled Decision Making Task
  M. Hartswood and R. Procter, Inst. of Communicating and Collaborating Systems, Edinburgh University.

Longitudinal Studies

• Ten Years of a Medical Incident Reporting System
  David Wright, Intensive Therapy Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
  
  
• Identification and Analysis of Incidents in Complex, Medical Environments
  Daniela Busse and Chris Johnson, Dept. of Computing Science, Univ. of Glasgow.

Learning from Medical Risk Analysis

• Moving from Industry/Transportation to the Medical Domain
  Tjerk van der Schaaf, Safety Management Group, Technical Univ. of Eindhoven.
  
  
• Application of a System Model to Obstetric and Neonatal Audit
  J. Davies, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary.
  
  
• Teaching about Error in Health Care
  John Gosbee, Centre for Applied Medical Informatics, Michigan State University.

Ethnography and Workplace Studies

• Fragmentation in Care and the Potential for Human Error
  A. Shepherd and O. Kostopoulou, Cognitive and Ergonomics Research Group, Loughborough University.
  
  
• Human Error in the Context of Work Activity Systems: A Case Study of Knowledge Based Computer Systems in Routine Use
  M. Harris, A.P. Jagodzinski, K.R. Greene
  Perinatal Research Group, Derriford Hospital.
  Postgraduate Medical School, School of Computing, University of Plymouth,
  

Works in Theory but not in Practice? Some notes on the Precautionary Principle
Sir Kenneth Calman and Denis Smith, Centre for Risk and Crisis Management, Durham University.

For any further details contact: Chris Johnson, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QJ, Scotland. email: johnson@dcs.gla.ac.uk tel.: +44 141 330 6053 fax.: +44 141 330 4913