"Do you really need to ask me that now?": A self-audit of interruptions to the 'shop floor' practice of a UK consultant emergency physician

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 872-876

  Allard, Jon ^a   Wyatt, Jonathan ^b   Bleakley, Alan ^a   Graham, Blair ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; TELECONSULTATION;

CONSULTANTS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84868159102     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200218     Document Type: Article

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