Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety
While engineering techniques are used in the development of medical devices and have been applied to individual healthcare processes, such as the use of checklists in surgery and ICUs, the application of system engineering techniques to larger healthcare systems is less common. System safety is the...
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| author | Couturier, Matthieu Thomas, John Dierks, Meghan Wierz, David Psaty, Bruce M. Leveson, Nancy G. Finkelstein, Stan Neil |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Couturier, Matthieu Thomas, John Dierks, Meghan Wierz, David Psaty, Bruce M. Leveson, Nancy G. Finkelstein, Stan Neil |
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| description | While engineering techniques are used in the development of medical devices and have been applied to individual healthcare processes, such as the use of checklists in surgery and ICUs, the application of system engineering techniques to larger healthcare systems is less common. System safety is the part of system engineering that uses modeling and analysis to identify hazards and to design the system to eliminate or control them. In this paper, we demonstrate how to apply a new, safety engineering static and dynamic modeling and analysis approach to healthcare systems. Pharmaceutical safety is used as the example in the paper, but the same approach is potentially applicable to other complex healthcare systems. System engineering techniques can be used in re-engineering the system as a whole to achieve the system goals, including both enhancing the safety of current drugs while, at the same time, encouraging the development of new drugs. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/814092022-09-29T16:38:01Z Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety Couturier, Matthieu Thomas, John Dierks, Meghan Wierz, David Psaty, Bruce M. Leveson, Nancy G. Finkelstein, Stan Neil Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Leveson, Nancy G. Couturier, Matthieu Thomas, John Finkelstein, Stan Neil While engineering techniques are used in the development of medical devices and have been applied to individual healthcare processes, such as the use of checklists in surgery and ICUs, the application of system engineering techniques to larger healthcare systems is less common. System safety is the part of system engineering that uses modeling and analysis to identify hazards and to design the system to eliminate or control them. In this paper, we demonstrate how to apply a new, safety engineering static and dynamic modeling and analysis approach to healthcare systems. Pharmaceutical safety is used as the example in the paper, but the same approach is potentially applicable to other complex healthcare systems. System engineering techniques can be used in re-engineering the system as a whole to achieve the system goals, including both enhancing the safety of current drugs while, at the same time, encouraging the development of new drugs. 2013-10-16T19:37:58Z 2013-10-16T19:37:58Z 2012-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2040-2295 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81409 Leveson, Nancy, Matthieu Couturier, John Thomas, Meghan Dierks, David Wierz, Bruce M. Psaty, and Stan Finkelstein. “Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety.” Journal of Healthcare Engineering 3, no. 3 (September 1, 2012): 391-414. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/2040-2295.3.3.391 Journal of Healthcare Engineering Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Multiscience MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Couturier, Matthieu Thomas, John Dierks, Meghan Wierz, David Psaty, Bruce M. Leveson, Nancy G. Finkelstein, Stan Neil Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety |
| title | Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety |
| title_full | Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety |
| title_fullStr | Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety |
| title_full_unstemmed | Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety |
| title_short | Applying System Engineering to Pharmaceutical Safety |
| title_sort | applying system engineering to pharmaceutical safety |
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