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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie 9/2010

01-09-2010 | Editorials

Methods and madness: agitation, delirium, and postoperative cognitive dysfunction

Author: Gregory L. Bryson, MD

Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 9/2010

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Excerpt

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”1
W. Edwards Deming
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2
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Footnotes
1
“W. Edwards Deming.” Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2010. Available from URL: http://​www.​quotes.​net/​quote/​8537 (accessed April 2010).
 
2
“W. Edwards Deming.” Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2010. Available from URL: http://​www.​quotes.​net/​quote/​8537 (accessed April 2010).
 
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Metadata
Title
Methods and madness: agitation, delirium, and postoperative cognitive dysfunction
Author
Gregory L. Bryson, MD
Publication date
01-09-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Issue 9/2010
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Electronic ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-010-9339-8

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