Documents and professional practice

Published 16 November 1996

Christian Heath, Paul Luff

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The practices that underpin the use of the medical records may have a range of important implications, not only for the general design of systems to support collaborative work, but also for the conceptions of ‘writers’, ‘readers’; ‘ objects’ and ‘records’ utilised in those designs.

Abstract

Article Documents and professional practice: "bad" organisational reasons for "good" clinical records Share on Authors: Christian Heath Centre for Work, Interaction and Technology, School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Centre for Work, Interaction and Technology, School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United KingdomView Profile , Paul Luff Centre for Work, Interaction and Technology, School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Centre for Work, Interaction and Technology, School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United KingdomView Profile Authors Info & Claims CSCW '96: Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative workNovember 1996 Pages 354–363https://doi.org/10.1145/240080.240342Online:16 November 1996Publication History 140citation1,845DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations140Total Downloads1,845Last 12 Months76Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

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