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Focusing on Health Care Safety.

March 6, 2005

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans. 2004;34(601):689-778.

This special issue covers concepts of cognition, the use of planning and protocols, communication patterns, and wrong-site surgery as venues for understanding and improving human performance in health care.

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