Table 2.

Modified Coordination System for Medical Teams-Emergency (CoMeT-E) main categories (level 1)

Main category	Abbreviation	Contextual information	Example
Information management	IM	Information concerning patient status, diagnoses, the prerequisites of the room, treatment, and other circumstances	“The blood pressure is 140/90”
			“He’s on Warfarin”
			“Is it bleeding, or what do me think?”
Task management	TM	Concerns tasks that are performed or potentially performed, like positioning of the patient	“I am taking the blood pressure now”
			“See if it’s possible to cut the clothes”
			“Who can fetch the ultrasound?”
Relational communication	RCAC	Not related to either information or task management	“Trust the feeling”
			“buy, buy, too bad”
Other communication	OC	Non-coordination related utterances, i.e. chatting	“Hey, what’s the name of the new bar?”
Not codable within the system	U	Inaudible utterances