Thought outside the box: Intensive care unit freakonomics and decision making in the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Mohan, Deepika ^a   Angus, Derek C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Heuristics; Intensive care

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JOB STRESS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 78650355358     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181f202c3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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