A O'Cathain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4568873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A O'Cathain |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Cathain |
| SIGNATURE | CATHAIN A O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of an expert system developed for the British telephone triage service NHS Direct. This system, known as CAS, is designed to standardise and control the interaction between NHS Direct nurses and callers. The paper shows, however, that in practice the nurses use CAS in a range of ways and, in so doing, privilege their own expertise and deliver an individualised service. The paper concludes by ar…
Epidemiology of babies dying at different ages from the sudden infant death syndrome
An analysis of data from the United Kingdom multicentre study of postneonatal mortality has been made to assess whether there are causally distinct groups of babies dying from the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and to develop explicit risk factor profiles for the subgroups. The 303 SIDS babies in the multicentre study were divided into four subgroups by age at death: weeks 1-7, 8-15, 16-23, and 24 or more weeks. Contrasts between these subg…
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of an expert system developed for the British telephone triage service NHS Direct. This system, known as CAS, is designed to standardise and control the interaction between NHS Direct nurses and callers. The paper shows, however, that in practice the nurses use CAS in a range of ways and, in so doing, privilege their own expertise and deliver an individualised service. The paper concludes by ar…
Epidemiology of babies dying at different ages from the sudden infant death syndrome
An analysis of data from the United Kingdom multicentre study of postneonatal mortality has been made to assess whether there are causally distinct groups of babies dying from the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and to develop explicit risk factor profiles for the subgroups. The 303 SIDS babies in the multicentre study were divided into four subgroups by age at death: weeks 1-7, 8-15, 16-23, and 24 or more weeks. Contrasts between these subg…
Epidemiology of babies dying at different ages from the sudden infant death syndrome
An analysis of data from the United Kingdom multicentre study of postneonatal mortality has been made to assess whether there are causally distinct groups of babies dying from the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and to develop explicit risk factor profiles for the subgroups. The 303 SIDS babies in the multicentre study were divided into four subgroups by age at death: weeks 1-7, 8-15, 16-23, and 24 or more weeks. Contrasts between these subg…
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of an expert system developed for the British telephone triage service NHS Direct. This system, known as CAS, is designed to standardise and control the interaction between NHS Direct nurses and callers. The paper shows, however, that in practice the nurses use CAS in a range of ways and, in so doing, privilege their own expertise and deliver an individualised service. The paper concludes by ar…
Medicine (2 works) · Business (1 works) · Cause of death (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Computer security (1 works) · Control (management) (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Disease (1 works) · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research (1 works) · Emergency and Acute Care Studies (1 works)