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This paper was originally presented as part of the SSAT Education Committee Panel on Teaching Safety in the OR at the SSAT 49th Annual Meeting, May 2008, in San Diego, CA, USA. The other articles presented in the panel were Jones DB, “Teaching Safety in the OR”; Greenberg CC, “Learning from Adverse Events and Near Misses”; Karl RC, “Aviation”; and Moorman DW, “Building Better Teams in Surgery.”
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Sudan, D. Safety in the OR: Who’s in and Who’s out?. J Gastrointest Surg 13, 9–11 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-008-0691-8
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