Interruption Management in the Intensive Care Unit: Predicting Resumption Times and Assessing Distributed Support

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-334

  Grundgeiger, Tobias ^a   Sanderson, Penelope ^a   MacDougall, Hamish G ^b   Venkatesh, Balasubramanian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Intensive care; Interruptions; Memory for goals; Prospective memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NURSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 78651377206     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021912     Document Type: Article

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