Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety: A randomized controlled trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 612-616

  Greenberg, Caprice C ^a,b   Diaz Flores, Rafael ^a,b   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Regenbogen, Scott E ^b,c   Mulholland, Lynn ^a   Mearn, Francine ^a   Rao, Shilpa ^a,b   Toidze, Tamara ^a,b   Gawande, Atul A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BAR CODE SYSTEM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARD; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL SPONGE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; TECHNICAL AID;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY; SURGICAL SPONGES;

EID: 41149165107     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181656cd5     Document Type: Article

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