@inproceedings{d3873ddef4024725ac294829e830b198,
title = "Challenges of disposition decision making for pediatric trauma patients in the emergency department",
abstract = "About 9.2 million children visit the emergency department (ED) in the US annually because of trauma and 20% experience a missed injury. Upon arriving to the hospital, physicians evaluate the child and make the ED disposition decision of whether to admit, operate or discharge. The objective of this study is to report the challenges mentioned by healthcare professionals about ED disposition decision making. We conducted 11 interviews with 12 healthcare professionals and identified 2 challenges of ED disposition decision making. The first challenge was timing of the decision; e.g., an ED nurse explained that a quick decision by physicians is important for providing timely patient care to critically ill children. The second challenge was leadership and team organization; e.g., the OR nurse and surgery resident both mentioned the need to know who to listen to so that they can understand what to do. Analyzing these challenges to ED disposition decision making can help to identify sociotechnical solutions for enhancing team situation awareness.",
keywords = "Coordination, Decision making, ED disposition, Patient safety, Pediatric trauma, Team situational awareness",
author = "Hose, {Bat Zion} and Pascale Carayon and Peter Hoonakker and Abigail Wooldridge and Tom Brazelton and Shannon Dean and Ben Eithun and Michelle Kelly and Jonathan Kohler and Joshua Ross and Deborah Rusy and Ayse Gurses",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.; 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018 ; Conference date: 26-08-2018 Through 30-08-2018",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-96098-2_44",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319960975",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "339--345",
editor = "Sebastiano Bagnara and Yushi Fujita and Riccardo Tartaglia and Sara Albolino and Thomas Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume I",
address = "Germany",
}