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Bar-coding Surgical Sponges To Improve Safety

DOI

145

Citations

11

References

2008

Year

Caprice C. Greenberg, Rafael Diaz-Flores, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Scott E. Regenbogen, Lynn Mulholland, Francine Mearn, Shilpa Rao, Tamara Toidze, Atul A. Gawande
Annals of Surgery

Abstract

Use of automated counting using bar-coded surgical sponges improved detection of miscounted and misplaced sponges and was well tolerated by surgical staff members.

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