Harvey Cushing's open and thorough documentation of surgical mishaps at the dawn of neurologic surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-232

  Latimer, Katherine ^a   Pendleton, Courtney ^a   Olivi, Alessandro ^a   Cohen Gadol, Aaron A ^b   Brem, Henry ^a   Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DOCUMENTATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEUROSURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951891332     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.319     Document Type: Review

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