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Understanding teamwork in high-risk domains through analysis of errors
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Understanding teamwork in high-risk domains through analysis of errors

CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on human factors in computing systems, pp 4651-4656
04 Apr 2009

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trauma human errors teamwork healthcare
Trauma care is an example of dynamic, complex, and safety-critical teamwork. The staff in trauma centers works under time pressure and lacks effective information technologies to support teamwork and reduce errors. This work presents a qualitative study that looked at the teamwork errors and their causes to better understand the challenges in providing computerized support for this user group.

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