Examining the impacts of sociotechnical systems factors on safety in clinical systems.
What we do
The Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab is directed by Dr. Myrtede Alfred, an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. The lab examines sociotechnical systems factors contributing to adverse events in clinical systems. Complementing the social determinants of health framework, the research lab also leverages human factors and systems engineering to examine clinical systems’ contributions to racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes. We are currently conducting AHRQ and NSERC funded research investigating maternal health disparities, remote patient monitoring, and retained foreign objects.
Integrating equity into incident reporting and patient concerns systems: a critical interpretive synthesis
Joanne Goldman, Leahora Rotteau, Lisha Lo, Brian M Wong, Ayelet Kuper, Allison Kooijman, Maitreya Coffey, Saleem Razack, Shail Rawal, Michael Palomo, Myrtede Alfred, Marie Pinard, Andrew Milroy, Carol Pauline Anderson, Arvin Minocha, Patricia Trbovich
18 Hardwiring human factors into healthcare: engineering solutions at the point of care
Myrtede Alfred, Komal Mazhar, Tiziana Rivera
An equity analysis of remote patient monitoring programs unveils assumptions on digital health equity
Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Vanessa Kishimoto, Kaylen J Pfisterer, Nishath Uddin, Katherine McGuire, Janette Brual, Kaitlyn Merriman, Payal Agarwal, Jeanette Smith, Myrtede Alfred, Michele Strom, Quynh Pham