Systematic review of general thoracic surgery articles to identify predictors of operating room case durations

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1232-1241

  Dexter, Franklin ^a,b   Dexter, Elisabeth U ^a,c   Masursky, Danielle ^c   Nussmeier, Nancy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 41349110267     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318164f0d5     Document Type: Article

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