OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to understand the nature of medical error in highly technological environments and argues that a comparison with aviation can blur its real understanding. METHODS: This study is a comparative study between the notion of error in health care and aviation based on the author's own ethnographic study in intensive care units and findings from the research literature on errors in aviation. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Failures in the use of medical technology are common...
Keywords: Medical error, safety-critical systems, medical technology, aviation, adverse incidents
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerAim, method: The scientific publications in the 2003 and 2004 issues of the journal Nuklearmedizin were analyzed retrospectively with regard to the proportion of medical technology research...
Keywords: Medizintechnik, Nuklearmedizin
01/2005 | Nuklearmedizin, SchattauerDie drahtlose Nahfeldbertragung ist schon lange eine Herausforderung fr Wissenschaftler der medizinischen Sensorik...
Keywords: Drahtlos, Medizintechnik, Bluetooth, disease management, monitoring, Wireless, medical technology
08/2005 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de Gruyter