Current Problems in Surgery
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 352-381 , June 2007

Preventable Errors in the Operating Room—Part 2: Retained Foreign Objects, Sharps Injuries, and Wrong Site Surgery

  • T. Forcht Dagi, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Senior Lecturer, The Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Associated Clinical Professor of Surgery, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Boston, MA
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  • Ramon Berguer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of California at Davis, Chief of Surgery, Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center, Martinez, CA
    • ,
  • Stephen Moore, MD

      Affiliations

    • Senior Vice President, Quality & Safety, Inova Health System, Falls Church, VA
    • ,
  • H. David Reines, MD

      Affiliations

    • Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Vice Chair of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA

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PII: S0011-3840(07)00046-9

doi: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2007.04.002

Current Problems in Surgery
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 352-381 , June 2007

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