From: Patient safety and acute care medicine: lessons for the future, insights from the past
Example | Insight |
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Engineering | Most errors are neither random nor unpredictable Benefits of Standard Operating Procedures Usefulness of second-opinions; fail-safes; time-outs Benefits of a systems approach to error and education Apply the Swiss-cheese model to understanding error |
Cognitive Psychology | Benefits and detriments of: |
 |    Gestalt, Law of Prägnanz, premature closure; availability and anchoring heuristics |
Human/Machine Interface | Humans excel at pattern-recognition; Computers excel at calculation and vigilance The best system mitigates shortcomings |
Chess | Need to concurrently manage multiple threats Two patterns of attention: Focus of predator; gaze of prey Benefits of risk-free simulation |