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Surgical safety checklists are an effective means for reducing surgical morbidity and mortality, but have we gone far enough in team-building and leadership to create high reliability?
- Correspondence to
James Forrest Calland
MD, FACS, Box 800709 - Dept. Of Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; calland{at}virginia.edu
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Surgical safety checklists are an effective means for reducing surgical morbidity and mortality, but have we gone far enough in team-building and leadership to create high reliability?
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- First published April 12, 2013.
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October 25, 2017
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