Care coordination in intensive care units: Communicating across information spaces

Human Factors

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-161

  Miller, Anne ^a   Weinger, Matthew B ^a   Buerhaus, Peter ^a   Dietrich, Mary S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

care coordination; charge nurses; clinical communication; information space; intensive care units; levels of decision making; medical fellows; medical residents; nurses; team coordination

Indexed keywords

CARE COORDINATION; CHARGE NURSES; CLINICAL COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SPACES; INTENSIVE CARE; LEVELS OF DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL FELLOWS; MEDICAL RESIDENTS; NURSES; TEAM COORDINATION;

COMMUNICATION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; DECISION MAKING; NURSING;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TENNESSEE;

EID: 77956854250     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720810369149     Document Type: Article

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