Observing failures in successful orthopaedic surgery

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 321-338

  Catchpole, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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