Communication in the Electronic Age: an Analysis of Face-to-Face Physician-Nurse Communication in the Emergency Department.

We describe the patterns and content of nurse to physician verbal conversations in three emergency departments (EDs) with electronic health records. Emergency medicine physicians and nurses were observed for 2 h periods. Researchers used paper notes to document the characteristics (e.

Assessment of Innovative Emergency Department Information Displays in a Clinical Simulation Center.

The objective of this work was to assess the functional utility of new display concepts for an emergency department information system created using cognitive systems engineering methods, by comparing them to similar displays currently in use. The display concepts were compared to standard displays in a clinical simulation study during which nurse-physician teams performed simulated emergency department tasks. Questionnaires were used to assess the cognitive support provided by the displays, participants' level of situation awareness, and participants' workload during the simulated tasks.