Problems and solutions arising during a study in visual semantics of the medical emergency team system.

Nancy Santiano; La-Stacey Baramy; Lis Young; Gurdarshan Saggu; Rouchelle Cabrera; Michael Parr

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Problems and solutions arising during a study in visual semantics of the medical emergency team system.

September 10, 2008

Santiano N, Baramy L-S, Young L, et al. Qual Health Res. 2008;18(10):1336-44.

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This article describes the process of and barriers in collecting audiovisual data to analyze the effectiveness of a medical emergency team (MET).

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