Safe asleep? Human-machine relations in medical practice

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2027-2037

  Mort, Maggie ^a   Goodwin, Dawn ^a   Smith, Andrew F ^a   Pope, Catherine ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic practice; Human machine boundary; Medical decision making; UK

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MEDICINE;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; MACHINE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; RISK; SAFETY; SLEEP; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECOVERY ROOM; SAFETY; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 23444434503     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.04.008     Document Type: Article

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