Error reduction through team leadership: applying aviation's CRM model in the OR.

Gerald B Healy; Jack Barker; Gregory Madonna

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Error reduction through team leadership: applying aviation's CRM model in the OR.

February 22, 2006

Healy GB, Barker J, Madonna G. Bull Am Coll Surg. 2006;91(2):10-5.

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The authors discuss the crew resource management model and its application in the operating room.

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