Communication and systems factors might still underlie surgical complications

Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 686-687

  Karsh, Ben Tzion ^a,b   Wiegmann, Doug ^a,b   Wetterneck, Tosha ^b,c   Carayon, Pascale ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRAINING;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL ERRORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 67349130114     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.02.003     Document Type: Letter

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