Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 1-14 , March 2009

How to implement information technology in the operating room and the intensive care unit

  • Geert Meyfroidt, MD (Deputy Head of Clinic)

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.07.004

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 1-14 , March 2009

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