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Hawthorne Effect

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It is Friday night and thankfully you have Saturday off. You invite a few friends for dinner and drinks after work. You get home and realise the place is a mess. You scramble to do the dishes, vacuum the floors, wipe down the surfaces and tidy up the clothes you have left lying around the place before your friends arrive, even though you haven’t bothered to in the days prior when it was just you by yourself.

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  1. Emergency Department, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Kim Hansen

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Clayton, Australia

    Manda Raz

  2. Consultant Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medicine, Research (DEMR), Department of Emergency Medicine, Casey Hospital, Monash Health, Victoria, Australia

    Pourya Pouryahya

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Hansen, K. (2021). Hawthorne Effect. In: Raz, M., Pouryahya, P. (eds) Decision Making in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0143-9_28

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