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Patient Safety Lab
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A lab that scientifically analyzes human error in health care to protect patients.
AboutAbout the lab
Minimizing preventable harm in health care.
The lab studies how to protect patient safety, which is the foundation of all health care services.
The goal of patient safety is to minimize preventable harm caused by health care.
As the Department of Patient Safety at Kyoto University Hospital, established in 2017, the lab studies countermeasures against human error that can lead to serious accidents, problems in how complex, advanced medical care is delivered, and differences in how patients and health care professionals perceive risk.
Key terms
- Human error
- A failure caused by a mistake in a person's judgment or action
- Intraocular lens
- An artificial lens placed in the eye in place of the clouded natural lens during cataract surgery
- Double-check
- A method of preventing mistakes by having two people verify the work
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the structure of human error by analyzing nationwide databases.
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MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYumi Matsumura
- LecturerKarin Kato
- Assistant ProfessorMegumi Iida
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Intraocular-lens-in-holder” Philos2000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Scientific analysis of human error: “Hinterkammerlinse 01 (fcm)” Photograph: Frank C. Müller, Baden-Baden / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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