Barriers to implementing wrong site surgery guidelines: A cognitive work analysis

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 757-763

  Rogers, Michelle L ^a,b   Cook, Richard I ^c   Bower, Robert ^d   Molloy, Mark ^d   Render, Marta L ^a,b  

^a VA Getting at Patient Safety (GAPS) Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COGNITIVE WORK ANALYSIS; COLLABORATIVE WORK; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING;

SURGERY;

EID: 7444227625     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2004.836805     Document Type: Article

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