Patients Benefit While Surgeons Suffer: An Impending Epidemic

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-313

  Park, Adrian ^a   Lee, Gyusung ^a   Seagull, F Jacob ^a   Meenaghan, Nora ^a   Dexter, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MONITOR; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA DISPLAY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 77249104433     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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