Complaints and incident reports related to anaesthesia service are foremost attributed to nontechnical skills

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-33

  Koetsier, Eva ^a   Boer, Christa ^a   Loer, Stephan A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Competency based education; Education; Medical; Medical errors

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; PAIN; TOOTH DISEASE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LARYNGOSCOPY; NETHERLANDS; OPERATING ROOMS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79951480318     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e32833e364c     Document Type: Article

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