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Open AccessEmbedding robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication and decision making: a review of the experience of surgical teams
While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots because of anticipated improvements in patient outcomes, their implementation into practice is highly variable. In robotic surg...
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Open AccessStrategies for conducting situated studies of technology use in hospitals
Ethnographic methods are widely used for understanding situated practices with technology. When authors present their data gathering methods, they almost invariably focus on the bare essentials. These enable t...
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Diagnosis at the microscope: a workplace study of histopathology
Histopathologists diagnose cancer and other diseases by using a microscope to examine glass slides containing thin sections of human tissue. Technological advances mean that it is now possible to digitise the ...
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Beyond handover: supporting awareness for continuous coverage
Hospitals are required to operate as a continuous system because patient care cannot be temporarily suspended and handover is seen as a key method for enabling this. This paper reports a study of handover in a...
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User customisation of medical devices: the reality and the possibilities
While studies of office environments have treated the customisation of technology by users as a positive response to the situated nature of work, customisation of devices in the medical domain, and other safet...