Teaching surgery takes time: The impact of surgical education on time in the operating room

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 87-92

  Vinden, Christopher ^a,b   Malthaner, Richard ^a   McGee, Jacob ^a   McClure, J Andrew ^b   Winick Ng, Jennifer ^b   Liu, Kuan ^b   Nash, Danielle M ^b   Welk, Blayne ^a,b   Dubois, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; ONTARIO; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONTARIO; OPERATING ROOMS; OPERATIVE TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84962478017     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.017515     Document Type: Article

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