Moving in with care: About patient safety as a spatial achievement

Space and Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-43

  Mesman, Jessica ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ad hoc team; collaboration; hospital ethnography; ICU; mobility work; neonatology; spatial ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858233258     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331211426066     Document Type: Article

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