Human factor engineering looks for how we design systems, work environments, and work processes that make it easier for workers to do the right thing, but also to be able to engineer barriers to prevent workers from doing the wrong thing, taking incorrect or erroneous actions, or shunting error pathways away from resulting in patient harm.

Learn how applying Human Factor Engineering can improve quality and streamline processes to increase efficiency, despite resource limitations in pathology and laboratory settings from Moira Larsen. MD, FCAP and Ethan Larsen, PhD by attending their course “Doing More with Less- Human Factors Engineering in Pathology” at the 2023 Pathologists Leadership Summit, April 15-18, 2023.

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