Toward a definition of teamwork in emergency medicine.

Rosemarie Fernandez; Steve W J Kozlowski; Marc J. Shapiro; Eduardo Salas

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Toward a definition of teamwork in emergency medicine.

October 22, 2008

Fernandez R, Kozlowski SWJ, Shapiro MJ, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15(11):1104-12.

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Building on the results of a workshop, this article describes a taxonomy of teamwork processes to standardize training in emergency medicine.

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