Christine Owen

TL;DR: Perceptions by paramedics and hospital receiving staff about what enables and constrains handover in the ED are investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative interview study was conducted with 32 liaison officers working in three strategic-level emergency operations centres in Australia and role clarity was identified as an important factor in the successful formation of emergency management temporary organizations by emergency services and critical infrastructure liaison officers.

TL;DR: It is concluded that socio-cultural theories provide a useful framework for understanding performance in High-3 workplace but that these theories need to be further developed to account for a range of features present in workplace contexts.

TL;DR: The findings confirm the efficacy of a behaviorally based intervention in COPD, but this would seem to be less than expected from conventional exercise-based pulmonary rehabilitation, raising the question of how, if at all, the small gains observed in this study may be augmented.

TL;DR: A theoretical framework for facilitating multi-agency coordination in emergency management that is grounded in human factors and ergonomics using the methodology of core-task analysis is presented and it is believed the framework will enable liaison officers to cope more efficiently within the work domain.