Do house officers learn from their mistakes?

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Published in Qual Saf Health Care on June 01, 2003

Authors

A W Wu1, S Folkman, S J McPhee, B Lo

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

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