Making sense: Sensor-based investigation of clinician activities in complex critical care environments

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-454

  Kannampallil, Thomas ^a   Li, Zhe ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Cohen, Trevor ^a   Robinson, David J ^a   Franklin, Amy ^a   Zhang, Jiajie ^a   Patel, Vimla L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Complexity; Critical care; Errors; Sensors

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL WORK; COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZATIONS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY; CRITICAL CARE; DEGREE OF RANDOMNESS; EDUCATION AND TRAINING; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HUMAN OBSERVATIONS; MOVEMENT PATTERN; NON-LINEAR; POTENTIAL ERRORS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; WORK ACTIVITIES; WORK PRACTICES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ERRORS; TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

SENSORS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENTROPY; ERROR; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MONITORING; OBSERVATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SENSOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79957598033     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: 15320464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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