Preventable Errors in the Operating Room: Retained Foreign Bodies after Surgery-Part I

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 281-337

  Gibbs, Verna C ^a   Coakley, Fergus D ^b   Reines, H David ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCSF Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANESTHESIST; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CHEST INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOREIGN BODY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LUNG RESECTION; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEEDLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSE; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RETAINED INSTRUMENT; RETRACTOR; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGEON; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL SPONGE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

BENCHMARKING; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OPERATING ROOMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL SPONGES;

EID: 34248561944     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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