Risk Factors for Retained Instruments and Sponges after Surgery
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- 16 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 348 (3) , 229-235
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa021721
Abstract
Risk factors for medical errors remain poorly understood. We performed a case–control study of retained foreign bodies in surgical patients in order to identify risk factors for this type of error.Keywords
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