Why is it so difficult to measure the effects of interruptions in healthcare?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 784-788

  Magrabi, Farah ^a   Li, Simon Y W ^a   Dunn, Adam G ^a   Coiera, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Efficiency; Evaluation studies; Interruption; Medical error; Observation; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; INTERRUPTION; MEDICAL ERRORS; OBSERVATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROCESS VARIABLES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 78649526617     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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