Nurses’ reactions to alarms in a neonatal intensive care unit

Cognition, Technology and Work

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 239-246

  Bitan, Yuval ^a   Meyer, Joachim ^a   Zmora, David Shinar Ehud ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alarms; Intensive care; Scheduling strategic behavior

Indexed keywords

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NURSING; PATIENT MONITORING;

CONDITION; INTENSIVE CARE; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULING STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047192819     PISSN: 14355558     EISSN: 14355566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0162-2     Document Type: Article

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