Implementing the assessment of surgical skills and non-technical behaviours in the operating room

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-66

  Marriott, Joy ^a   Purdie, Helen ^b   Crossley, Jim ^a   Beard, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Sheffield ^*

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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