Laurie Wolf

An Analysis of Nurses' Cognitive Work: A New Perspective for Understanding Medical Errors (1998)

Potter, Patricia, Wolf, Laurie, Boxerman, Stuart, Grayson, Deborah, Sledge, Jennifer, Dunagan, Clay, ...

Health care researchers agree that the acute care hospital environment is filled with numerous distractions. Within this environment, professional nurses make clinical judgments about their patients,...

Can We Talk? Priorities for Patient Care Differed Among Health Care Providers (1998)

Evanoff, Bradley, Potter, Patricia, Wolf, Laurie, Grayson, Deborah, Dunagan, Clay, Boxerman, Stuart

Poor communication and collaboration between members of a patient's health care team can result in medical errors and poor quality of care. The purpose of this study was to assess communication and...

Do Transient Working Conditions Trigger Medical Errors? (1998)

Grayson, Deborah, Boxerman, Stuart, Potter, Patricia, Wolf, Laurie, Dunagan, Clay, Sorock, Gary, ...

Organizational factors affecting working conditions for health care workers have received significant attention as latent causes of medical errors. Little is known, however, about the risks...