The impact of interruptions on clinical task completion

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  BMJ Quality & Safety

• Publication date

  2010-05-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1136/qshc.2009.039255PMID 20463369
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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