Teamwork and Error Management in Critical Care
Our earlier studies show that physicians’ ability to detect errors in clinical problems in the intensive medical care domain is limited when tested individually in laboratory-based conditions (Chaps. 3 and 6 ). We extended this study to explore the mech
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Vimla L. Patel David R. Kaufman Trevor Cohen Editors
Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine Case Studies on Critical Care, Complexity and Errors
Health Informatics
Vimla L. Patel • David R. Kaufman • Trevor Cohen Editors
Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine Case Studies on Critical Care, Complexity and Errors
Editors Vimla L. Patel New York Academy of Medicine New York, NY USA
Trevor Cohen
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, TX USA
David R. Kaufman Arizona State University Scottsdale, AZ USA
ISBN 978-1-4471-5489-1 ISBN 978-1-4471-5490-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5490-7 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
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To Walter Kinstch and Robert Glaser Who inspired me to push the boundaries of my thought, but to do so with style and grace –Vimla L. Patel
Foreword
In 2000 the James S. McDonnell Foundation initiated a program to support research on complex systems. The purpose of the program is to develop new methods and mathematical tools for advancing complexity science. The particular problem area in which the tools and methods are developed, while not irrelevant, is of secondary interes
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