When once is not enough: The role of redundancy in a hospital ward setting

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 158-167

  Cabitza, Federico ^a   Sarini, Marcello ^a   Simone, Carla ^a   Telaro, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collaborative work practices; Healthcare; Reading and writing artifacts; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK PRACTICE; COLLABORATIVE WORK PRACTICES; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; DIRECT OBSERVATION; FIELD STUDIES; HOSPITAL WARDS;

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; REDUNDANCY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 33750364138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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