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How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. / Bossen, Claus; Jensen, Lotte Groth.

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 257-268 (Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings).

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Bossen, C & Jensen, LG 2014, How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. in Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW. Association for Computing Machinery, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings, pp. 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531620

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Bossen, C., & Jensen, L. G. (2014). How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW (pp. 257-268). Association for Computing Machinery. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531620

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Bossen C, Jensen LG. 2014. How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 257-268. (Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531620

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Bossen, Claus and Lotte Groth Jensen "How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward". Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW. Association for Computing Machinery. (Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings). 2014, 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531620

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Bossen C, Jensen LG. How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 257-268. (Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2531602.2531620

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Bossen, Claus ; Jensen, Lotte Groth. / How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 257-268 (Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Proceedings).

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