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Editorial
. 2021 Dec;76(12):1563-1566.
doi: 10.1111/anae.15481. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

'Never Events': will they always be with us?

M Devlin  1 , A F Smith  1
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Editorial

'Never Events': will they always be with us?

M Devlin et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 Dec.
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Keywords: patient safety; statistics.

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