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Evaluation of critical incidents in general surgery.
Zingg U, Zala-Mezoe E, Kuenzle B, et al. Br J Surg. 2008;95:1420-1425.

This study developed an evaluation protocol to investigate critical incidents in the surgical setting, and assessed its feasibility by categorizing 139 incidents into a combination of three classification systems.
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