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A Socio-Technical Exploration for Reducing & Mitigating the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects

A Retained Foreign Object (RFO) is a fairly infrequent but serious adverse event. An accurate rate of RFOs is difficult to establish due to underreporting but it has been estimated that incidences range between 1/1000 and 1/19,000 procedures. The cost of a RFO incident may be substantial and three-f...

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Autores principales: Corrigan, Siobhán, Kay, Alison, O’Byrne, Katie, Slattery, Dubhfeasa, Sheehan, Sharon, McDonald, Nick, Smyth, David, Mealy, Ken, Cromie, Sam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29642646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040714