Counting silence: Complexities in the evaluation of team communication

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 283-299

  Lingard, Lorelei ^a,b,c   Whyte, Sarah ^c,d   Regehr, Glenn ^b,c   Gardezi, Fauzia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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