Opportunistic decision making and complexity in emergency care

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 469-476

  Franklin, Amy ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Li, Zhe ^a   Nguyen, Vickie ^a   Johnson, Todd R ^a   Robinson, David ^a,b   Okafor, Nnaemeka ^a,b   King, Brent ^a,b   Patel, Vimla L ^a   Zhang, Jiajie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Across task decisions; Complexity; Emergency department; Methodology; Opportunistic decision making; Opportunistic planning; Taxonomy of decision types

Indexed keywords

ACROSS-TASK DECISIONS; COMPLEXITY; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; METHODOLOGY; OPPORTUNISTIC DECISION MAKING; OPPORTUNISTIC PLANNING;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; TAXONOMIES;

DECISION MAKING;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NATURALISTIC INQUIRY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79957589002     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: 15320464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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