Barriers and facilitators to timely admission and transfer of patients from an emergency department to an intensive care unit

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 763-767

  Stephens, Robert ^a   Cudnik, Michael ^b   Patterson, Emily ^b  

^a National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; INFORMATION UPDATES; MISSING INFORMATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; ERGONOMICS;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 81855216389     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181311551158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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