Time motion studies in healthcare: What are we talking about?

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 292-299

  Lopetegui, Marcelo ^a   Yen, Po Yin ^a   Lai, Albert ^a   Jeffries, Joseph ^a   Embi, Peter ^a   Payne, Philip ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods; Standardization; Time and Motion Studies

Indexed keywords

TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

CLINICAL WORKFLOW; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; EXTERNAL OBSERVER; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; IMPROVING EFFICIENCY; METHODS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

STANDARDIZATION;

DATA BASE; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 84902543970     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.02.017     Document Type: Review

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