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Investigating Shared Mental Models in Critical Care

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Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine

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Clinical care is increasingly recognized as a highly collaborative practice [1]. The complexity of modern medicine, particularly of intensive care, requires deep specialization and honing of skills and expertise that can take years to acquire. As a result, clinical teams in intensive care units can include over a dozen of specialists, each contributing their unique knowledge to the overall patient care. And while speedy and successful patient recovery is an underlying objective of their combined efforts, each specialist may have their own goals and priorities, dictated by their training, experience, and focus.

A version of this chapter is under review: Mamykina L, Twohig B, Sheehan B, Hum RS, Kaufman DR, Measuring shared mental models in critical care: methodological perspective, under review. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Lena Mamykina PhD

  2. Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    R. Stanley Hum MD, FRCPC

  3. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA

    David R. Kaufman PhD

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  1. New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Vimla L. Patel

  2. Arizona State University, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

    David R. Kaufman

  3. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    Trevor Cohen

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Mamykina, L., Hum, R.S., Kaufman, D.R. (2014). Investigating Shared Mental Models in Critical Care. In: Patel, V., Kaufman, D., Cohen, T. (eds) Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5490-7_14

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