Clinical cognition and biomedical informatics: issues of patient safety.

Vimla L Patel; Leanne Currie

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Clinical cognition and biomedical informatics: issues of patient safety.

August 24, 2005

Patel VL, Currie L. Int J Med Inform. 2005;74(11-12).

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The authors present issues related to cognition in nursing practice and how these might be applied to design effective clinical information systems.

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