Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 446-452 , April 2010

Rating medical emergency teamwork performance: Development of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM)

  • Simon Cooper

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Victoria 3842, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 3 5122 6627; fax: +61 3 9902 6527.
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  • Robyn Cant

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Victoria 3842, Australia
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  • Joanne Porter

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Victoria 3842, Australia
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  • Ken Sellick

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Victoria 3842, Australia
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  • George Somers

      Affiliations

    • Gippsland Medical School, Monash University, Victoria 3552, Australia
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  • Leigh Kinsman

      Affiliations

    • School of Rural Health, Monash University, PO Box 666, Bendigo, Victoria 3552, Australia
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  • Debra Nestel

      Affiliations

    • Gippsland Medical School, Monash University, Victoria 3552, Australia

Received 19 August 2009 ,Revised 28 October 2009 ,Accepted 25 November 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.027.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.027

Resuscitation
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