Team performance assessment in healthcare: Facing the challenge

Simulation in Healthcare

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Manser, Tanja ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAM BUILDING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; SAFETY;

EID: 39549117579     PISSN: 15592332     EISSN: 1559713X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e3181663592     Document Type: Editorial

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