Who Knows This Patient?

Who knows this patient?

. . . in my view the pendulum has over swung with the stringent new ACGME residency work-hour restrictions. I do not believe that the challenges to continuity of care are of benefit to either patients or trainees. We walked down the hall at a brisk pace, challenged with the task of seeing all the patients before our time for rounds expired. Upon reaching the sought-after room, I inquired “who k...

Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom"

The argument proffered in this paper is that use of enterprise social networking technologies can increase the accuracy of people’s metaknowledge (knowledge of “who knows what” and “who knows whom”) at work. The results of a quasinatural field experiment in which only one of two matched-sample groups within a large financial services firm was given access to the enterprise social networking tec...

Who Is This Man?

Who thinks who knows who? Socio-Cognitive Analysis of an Email Network

Interpersonal interaction plays an important role in organizational dynamics, and understanding these interaction networks is key for any organization, since they can be tapped to facilitate various organizational processes. The principal roadblock to studying organizational networks, however, has been the difficulty in collecting data about them. The approach of conducting surveys/interviews i...

Erratum: “Secret Ingredients: Who Knows What’s in Your Food?”

The April 2013 News article “Secret Ingredients: Who Knows What’s in Your Food?” [Environ Health Perspect 121:A126–A133 (2013] included a simplified version of Figure 1B from Neltner et al. [Navigating the U.S. food additive regulatory program. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 10(6):342–368 (2011)]. In simplifying the figure, EHP introduced errors. We furthermore later determined that Figure 2 from ...