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Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

The Armstrong Institute Center for Health Care Human Factors

The Armstrong Institute Center for Health Care Human Factors is dedicated to improving the way that people — health care professionals, patients and families — interact with care systems so that they are safer, high performing and patient-centered. We bring a scientific approach to reengineering health care systems and processes so that medical errors are "designed out" and evidence-based care is built in.

The center brings together experts in human factors and organizational psychology with an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners and educators who want to design health care systems and technologies that work for people, rather than set them up for mistakes and inefficiencies.

Services, Workshops and Speakers

The Center for Health Care Human Factors offers several services to help health care organizations and industry to improve safety, quality and productivity in care delivery.

Work With Us

Are you pursuing a career in human factors or seeking to incorporate human factors principles, approaches and methods into your efforts to improve patient safety? The Center for Health Care Human Factors welcomes inquiries from health care leaders, human factors experts, organizational psychologists, clinician scientists, health care professionals, experts from other scientific disciplines, trainees and students about opportunities to join our team or collaborate with us.

Positions

  • Postdoctoral fellowships
  • Research opportunities for students, trainees and junior scientists
  • Internships

Collaboration Opportunities

  • Joint projects
  • Research mentorship (e.g., NIH K-Career Awards)

highlights Our Current Projects

Project Firstline: foundational questions to inform infection control training and improvement

[11/12/20-9/26/22]
CDC N00024-13-D-6400

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute Center for Health Care Human Factors have partnered to explore enhancements to infection control within the built environment and workflows within, for the nation’s operating rooms (ORs) and other clinical spaces.

A Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach for Understanding the Diagnostic Process and Associated Hazards in the Emergency Department

[09/30/19-09/29/22]
AHRQ R01HS027198-01

The aim of this project is to understand provider (physician and advanced practice provider) work involved in ED diagnosis and identify associated performance shaping factors, to understand collaborative work involved in ED diagnosis and identify associated performance shaping factors and to conduct a proactive risk assessment of the diagnostic process in the ED.

Strategies for Improving Opioid Use in Perioperative Pain Management

[09/30/19-09/29/22]
CDC R01CE003150-01-00
 
We developed a Perioperative Pain Program (PPP) to coordinate the continuum of care for surgical patients on chronic opioid therapy throughout the perioperative period. The objective of the proposed project is to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the PPP.

PROMIS Learning Lab: Partnership in Resilience for Medication Safety

[10/01/19-09/30/23]
AHRQ-JHU sub to UTA R18HS027277-01

The goal of the project is to develop and test innovative tools and design guidelines to enable partnering between patients/families and professionals to reduce harms from inappropriate practices of medication use.

Research and Presentations

Through presentations and by authoring academic publications, the center's experts have established themselves as international leaders in the application of human factors to improving patient safety and health care quality.

Contact Us

Contact us any questions about our work and how we may be able to collaborate with your team to reduce preventable harms, enhance patient outcomes and experiences, and reduce waste in care delivery.

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