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Archive > December, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 12

How We Prevent Retained Objects

Don't let the rush of efficiency compromise your patients' safety.

Barbara Nalley

Surgical counts have been documented in clinical practice since the beginning of the 20th century.1 AORN published its first standards for counts in 1976. In spite of these efforts, retained object medical errors still occur. What's more, surgical personnel may not even realize how they're committing these errors. A recent study showed that in 88 percent of cases involving an item left inside a patient, the closing count was documented as correct.[2]

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