Preventable Errors in the Operating Room-Part 2: Retained Foreign Objects, Sharps Injuries, and Wrong Site Surgery

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 352-381

  Dagi, T Forcht ^a   Berguer, Ramon ^b   Moore, Stephen ^c   Reines, H David ^d  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIDANOSINE; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; LAMIVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; STAVUDINE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCREDITATION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NEUROSURGERY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; SCALPEL; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL GLOVE;

BENCHMARKING; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OPERATING ROOMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL SPONGES;

EID: 34250668252     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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