Health care categories have politics too: Unpacking the managerial agendas of electronic triage systems

ECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 371-390

  Bjørn, Pernille ^a   Balka, Ellen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY ROOMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NURSING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CONTROLLING COSTS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE;

MANAGERS;

EID: 50849130094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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