Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 73-83 , June 2006

A cognitive blueprint of collaboration in context: Distributed cognition in the psychiatric emergency department

  • Trevor Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 212 342 1636; fax: +1 212 305 3302.
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  • Brett Blatter

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Emergency Department, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
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  • Carlos Almeida

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Emergency Department, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
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  • Edward Shortliffe

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
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  • Vimla Patel

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA

Received 30 June 2005 ,Revised 21 December 2005 ,Accepted 17 March 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.03.009

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 73-83 , June 2006

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