Late operating room starts: Experience with an education trial

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1233-1236

  Truong, Angela ^a   Tessler, Michael J ^a   Kleiman, Simcha J ^a   Bensimon, Myriam ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anaesthesia: cost; economics: cost

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; COST; EDUCATION; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING TIME;

EID: 0030464028     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03013431     Document Type: Article

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