Safe surgery, the human factors approach

Surgeon

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93-95

  O'Connor, Tony ^a,b   Papanikolaou, V ^a,b   Keogh, I ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aviation; Medical errors; Safety; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; BIOENGINEERING; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SAFETY; STANDARD;

AVIATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77649235208     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surge.2009.10.004     Document Type: Review

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