Performance improvement through best practice team management: Human factors in complex trauma

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 105-108

  Mercer, Simon ^a   Aru, G S ^b   Pugh, H E J ^c  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b 212 Field Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c 144 Parachute Medical Squadron ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION & TRAINING (SEE MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING); EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STANDARD; TRAUMA MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EDUCATION & TRAINING (SEE MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING); MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING; TRAUMA MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900826812     PISSN: 00358665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-2013-000205     Document Type: Article

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