Creating spaces in intensive care for safe communication: a video-reflexive ethnographic study.

Su-Yin Hor; Rick Iedema; Elizabeth Manias

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Creating spaces in intensive care for safe communication: a video-reflexive ethnographic study.

October 22, 2014

Hor S-Y, Iedema R, Manias E. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23(12):1007-13.

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This study used video-reflexive ethnography—a qualitative intervention approach that involves videotaping daily work processes and then using the videos to stimulate further discussion and problem solving—to analyze how clinicians create safe spaces for communication in the busy environment of the intensive care unit.

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