Short message service or disService: issues with text messaging in a complex medical environment.
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2014-03-03
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Hospitals today are experiencing major changes in their clinical communication workflows as conventional numeric paging and face to face verbal conversations are being replaced by computer mediated communication systems In this paper we highlight the importance of understanding this transition and discuss some of the impacts that may emerge when verbal clinical conversations are replaced by short text messages