Measuring the impact of time pressure on team task performance

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 385-403

  Mackenzie, Colin F ^a   Jeffcott, Shelly A ^b   Xiao, Yan ^c  

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

^b NHMRC Centre   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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