Remembering to do things later and resuming interrupted tasks: Prospective memory and patient safety

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 339-352

  Dieckmann, Peter ^a   Dyrløv Madsen, Marlene ^e   Reddersen, Silke ^b   Rall, Marcus ^c   Wehner, Theo ^d  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Danish Institute for Medical Simulation(DIMS)   (Denmark)

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