Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 433-435 , October 2007

When Is a Defibrillator Not a Defibrillator? When It’s Like a Clock Radio … . The Challenge of Usability and Patient Safety in the Real World

  • Ben-Tzion Karsh, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Ben-Tzion Karsh, PhD, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1513 University Avenue, Room 4155, Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-3002, fax 608-262-8454
    • ,
  • Matthew Scanlon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

Received 24 August 2007

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 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Dr. Karsh is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Library of Medicine, and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. Dr. Scanlon is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Library of Medicine.Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MSPublication dates: Available online August 24, 2007.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)01250-4

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.06.481

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 433-435 , October 2007

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