Beyond counting: Current evidence on the problem of retaining foreign bodies in surgery?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-20

  Greenberg, Caprice C ^a   Gawande, Atul A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALPRACTICE; MANUAL COUNTING; NEEDLE; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL SPONGE; TECHNIQUE;

FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEEDLES; OPERATING ROOMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 37549072238     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318160c194     Document Type: Editorial

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