Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 387-395, October 2007

What Whiteboards in a Trauma Center Operating Suite Can Teach Us About Emergency Department Communication

  • Yan Xiao, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Yan Xiao, PhD, Division of Research in Patient Safety, Program in Trauma, University of Maryland, 22 S Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201, 410-328-7179, fax 410-328-7230
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  • Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Samer Faraj, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business, College Park, MD
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  • Colin F. Mackenzie, MB ChB, FRCA

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Jacqueline Moss, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

Received 1 July 2006; received in revised form 29 December 2006; accepted 26 March 2007. published online 11 May 2007.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: YX conceived the study, design the study, and supervised data collection. YX, SF, and CFM obtained the funding. YX, SS, and CFM drafted the article. YX, SF, and JM developed concept framework. YX takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that may create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. This research was supported by National Science Foundation (ITR-0081868 and ITR-0325087). The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the authors’ employers nor the funding agency.

 Available online May 11, 2007.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)00388-5

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.027

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