Strategies for improving surgical quality - Checklists and beyond

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 1963-1965

  Birkmeyer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OPERATING ROOM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78149478445     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1009542     Document Type: Editorial

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