Supporting the characterization of sign-out in acute care wards

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 5215-5220

  Sledd, Richard M D ^b   Bass, Ellen J ^a,b   Borowitz, Stephen M ^c   Waggoner Fountain, Linda A ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 34548133699     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.385136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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