Human Error in Emergency Medicine
Annals of Emergency MedicinePublished 1 September 1999
Robert L. Wears, Lucian L. Leape
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Abstract [Wears RL, Leape LL: Human error in emergency medicine]; Ann Emerg Med September 1999;34:370-372.
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Abstract [Wears RL, Leape LL: Human error in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med September 1999;34:370-372.]
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