Quality assessment in surgery: Mission impossible?

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dindo, Daniel ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 78650835846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-4-18     Document Type: Editorial

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