Integrating non-technical skills into anaesthetists' workplace-based assessment tools

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 175-187

  Glavin, Ronnie ^a   Patey, Rona ^b,c,d  

^a VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c Clinical Skills Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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