Patient safety in surgery: Non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Youngson, George G ^a   Flin, Rhona ^b  

^a ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NON TECHNICAL SKILL; NURSE; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT SAFETY; PROFESSIONALISM; SKILL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURGEON; SURGERY; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEAMWORK;

EID: 79958801779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-4-4     Document Type: Editorial

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