The role of dynamic trade-offs in creating safety - A qualitative study of handover across care boundaries in emergency care

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 54-62

  Sujan, Mark ^a   Spurgeon, Peter ^a   Cooke, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialectics; Emergency care; Handover; Healthcare; Patient safety; Resilience

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEALTH CARE;

DIALECTICS; EMERGENCY CARE; HANDOVER; PATIENT SAFETY; RESILIENCE;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 84937835002     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2015.03.006     Document Type: Article

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