Crisis management in acute care settings
Subtitle: human factors and team psychology in a high stakes environment
By: Michael St. Pierre ... [et al.].
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9783642196997
Subjects: Emergency medical services; Crisis management
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Crisis management in acute care settings / Michael St. Pierre, Gesine Hofinger, Cornelius Buerschaper. c2008.

Includes bilbiographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The human factors: errors and skills; title: The challenge of acute healthcare; title: The nature of error; title: The psychology of human action; title: Human perception: the way we see things; title: Information processing and mental models: world views; title: Goals and plans: turning points for success; title: Attention: in the focus of consciousness; title: Stress; title: Strategies for action: ways to achieve good decisions; title: The key to success: teamwork; title: Speech is golden: communication; title: Leadership; title: Organizations and accidents; title: Reliable acute care medicine.