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Lopez, Christen, Militello, Laura G., Brown, William S., Wreathall, John, Marble, Julie and Cooper, Susan E. (2012): Using Incident Reports to Identify Vulnerabilities: A Case Study in Radiation Therapy. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2012 Annual Meeting 2012. pp. 867-871.

“As mandatory reporting of health care incidents becomes more prevalent, the need for effective strategies for analyzing historical reports to identify vulnerabilities is increasingly important. For this project, the research team reviewed existing event narratives collected by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that described errors with the use of nuclear byproducts in four medical treatment modalities: gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery, high dose rate brachytherapy, low dose rate brachytherapy, and interstitial brachytherapy. This analysis had three levels: identification of possible system vulnerabilities based on historical data, analysis of event data for trends over time and for each treatment modality, and comparison of the suggested corrective actions with the implemented corrective actions for each event. The research team identified types of errors that were more prevalent with each treatment modality, along with discrepancies between suggested corrective actions and the implemented corrective actions. This project is a case study illustrating strategies for extracting valuable information from incident-reporting databases.”

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Militello, Laura G., Brown, William S., Wreathall, John, Cooper, Susan E., Marble, Julie and Lopez, Christen (2011): Supporting NRC Inspections of Byproduct Use in Medical Facilities. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting 2011. pp. 788-792.

“This paper describes an ongoing project funded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to provide decision support for a range of NRC staff, including staff concerned with inspecting medical facilities that use nuclear byproduct materials. Stereotactic radiosurgery was chosen as a case study to explore issues of human reliability and drive the design of a decision support job aid. Study of the evolution of one such device, the Gamma Knife®, over the past several years reveals a shift toward increased automation. The newest model eliminates specific errors associated with forgetting, calculation, and data entry experienced with earlier models of Gamma Knife technology. As a result of increased automation, it will be important that inspectors increase attention to potential automation-related errors and vulnerabilities. Updates to the job aid based on these analyses will broaden the human performance issues considered, increasing the relevance of the job aid for inspecting medical uses of nuclear byproduct materials, and for developing appropriate guidance.”

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Anderson, Nancy S., Schurman, Donald L. and Wreathall, John (1990): A Structure of Influences of Management and Organizational Factors on Unsafe Acts at the Job Performer Level. In: D., Woods, and E., Roth, (eds.) Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 34th Annual Meeting 1990, Santa Monica, USA. pp. 881-884.

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