Peri-operative communication patterns and media usage--implications for systems design.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 160(Pt 1): 294-8, 2010.
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ABSTRACT
Inter-hospital communication amounts for a great deal of clinicians' work time. While communication is essential to coordinate care, it can also be time consuming and interruptive, and breakdown in communication is an important source of medical errors. One contributor to the interruptive nature of communication is the use of synchronous media, and there is clearly a potential for novel technologies. To assess communication patterns and media usage we performed an ethnographic field study in the peri-operative environment at a Norwegian hospital, as well as interviews with nurses. We analyze the results with regards to choice of media, characteristics of the conversations taking place and meta-messages, and account for addressing, obtrusiveness and information richness in the message exchanges. We find a relative high degree of interruptiveness in communication, and ascribe it to 1) a lack of situational awareness between locations in the peri-operative domain, as well as 2) use of synchronous media. This suggests that design of novel technology for intra-hospital communication should aim at supporting sender-receiver awareness and signaling of availability.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Pautas de la Práctica en Medicina
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Multimedia
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Atención Perioperativa
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Comunicación Interdisciplinaria
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Relaciones Interprofesionales
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Stud Health Technol Inform
Asunto de la revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2010
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Noruega