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Retained Item Reporting

Retained Item Reporting is a methodological framework within patient safety science that systematically documents and analyzes incidents involving surgical or medical devices inadvertently left inside patients after procedures, distinguishing it from general incident reporting by its focused accountability and prevention mechanisms for retained foreign objects.

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Authors

19

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Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

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Managing the Prevention of Retained Surgical Instruments

Natalia Egorova, Alan J. Moskowitz, Annetine C. Gelijns et al. · Annals of Surgery · 2008 · 174 citations

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Retained surgical sponges: a descriptive study of 319 occurrences and contributing factors from 2012 to 2017

Victoria M. Steelman, Clarissa Shaw, Laurel Shine et al. · Patient Safety in Surgery · 2018 · 84 citations · Full text

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Retained Surgical Sponges: Findings from Incident Reports and a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Radiofrequency Technology Table 1 Retained Surgical Items and Surgical Count Events by Type of Item Table 2 Summary of Events Involving Retained Sponges and Surgical Sponge Count Issues from Event Descriptions

Tamara L. Williams, Derrick K. Tung, Victoria M. Steelman et al. · Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2014 · 77 citations

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A qualitative content analysis of retained surgical items: learning from root cause analysis investigations

Peter Hibbert, Matthew J. W. Thomas, Anita Deakin et al. · International Journal for Quality in Health Care · 2020 · 23 citations · Full text

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Miscount Incidents: A Novel Approach to Exploring Risk Factors for Unintentionally Retained Surgical Items

Timothy J. Judson, Michael D. Howell, Charlotte L. Guglielmi et al. · The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety · 2013 · 16 citations

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Authors

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  1. VM
    Victoria M. Steelman

    University of Iowa, United States

    2 publications · 161 citations

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  2. CL
    Charlotte L. Guglielmi

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  3. CS
    Clarissa Shaw

    University of Iowa, United States

    1 publications · 84 citations

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  4. KK
    Kristin K. Porter

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

    1

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  5. DF
    Dennis Fowler

    Columbia University, United States

    1 publications · 174 citations

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Institutions

19

  1. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    329 citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  3. University HealthSystem Consortium

    Oak Brook, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    231 citations

  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    174 citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  6. Hadassah Medical Center

    Jerusalem, Israel

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    48 citations

  7. National Patient Safety Foundation

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    52 citations

  8. NOAA National Ice Center

    Suitland, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

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  3. Annals of Surgery

    1 publications · 174 citations

    1

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  4. Journal of Patient Safety

    1 publications · 13 citations

    1

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  5. Journal of the American College of Surgeons

    JACS · 1 publications · 77 citations

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