Loosely formed patient care teams: Communication challenges and technology design

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 867-876

  Lee, Soyoung ^a   Tang, Charlotte ^c   Park, Sun Young ^a   Chen, Yunan ^a,b  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

collaborative work.; communication behaviors; emergency department; loosely formed patient care team; nursing work

Indexed keywords

CARE ACTIVITIES; COLLABORATION PRACTICES; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE WORK; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORS; COMMUNICATION PROCESS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; RESPONSIBLE CARE; ROLE-BASED; TEAM COLLABORATION; TEAM MEMBERS; TECHNOLOGY DESIGNS; WORK PRACTICES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EMERGENCY ROOMS; GROUPWARE; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NURSING;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84863278220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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