The multitasking clinician: Decision-making and cognitive demand during and after team handoffs in emergency care

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 801-811

  Laxmisan, Archana ^a   Hakimzada, Forogh ^a   Sayan, Osman R ^b   Green, Robert A ^b   Zhang, Jiajie ^c   Patel, Vimla L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emergency care information systems; Handoffs; Interruptions; Medical errors; Multitasking

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; STABILIZATION;

CLINICAL DECISION; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION; MULTITASKING CLINICIAN;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OBSERVATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT TRANSFER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947232046     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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