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A qualitative study of expert and team cognition on complex patients in the pediatric intensive care unit
Pediatric Critical Care, 05/16/2012
Custer JW et al. – An inadequately developed or inadequately shared mental model is a substantial cognitive limitation for expert and team cognition in the complex environment of the pediatric intensive care unit. Providers utilize techniques that may avoid or decrease the variable interpretations of patient condition that would otherwise impair mental model formation and sharing.