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Current surgical instrument labeling techniques may increase the risk of unintentionally retained foreign objects: a hypothesis

BACKGROUND: Marking of surgical instruments is essential to ensure their proper identification after sterile processing. The National Quality Forum defines unintentionally retained foreign objects in a surgical patient as a serious reportable event also called "never event." PRESENTATION O...

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Autores principales: Ipaktchi, Kyros, Kolnik, Adam, Messina, Michael, Banegas, Rodrigo, Livermore, Meryl, Price, Connie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24079615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-7-31