Two hundred years of surgery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1716-1723

  Gawande, Atul ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANTISEPSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPECIALIZATION; SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING;

EID: 84860443721     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1202392     Document Type: Review

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