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Listed below are links to published studies, articles, and empirical data that track results and/or enhances knowledge on the value of patient safety.
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Methods of prevention and discovery for retained foreign bodies
The articles listed below discuss various approaches to managing retained foreign bodies and methods of prevention and discovery.
Cima RR, Kollengode A, Garnatz J, Storsveen A, Weisbrod C, Deschamp C. Incidence and characteristics of potential and actual retained foreign object events in surgical patients (705K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2008;207(1):80-87.
Ponrartana S, Coakley FV, Yeh BM, et al. Accuracy of plain abdominal radiographs in the detection of retained surgical needles in the peritoneal cavity. Ann Surg. 2008;247(1):8-12.
Egorova NN, Moskowitz A, Gelijns A, et al. Managing the prevention of retained surgical instruments: what is the value of counting? Ann Surg. 2008;247(1):13-18.
Greenberg CC, Gawande AA. Beyond counting: current evidence on the problem of retaining foreign bodies in surgery? Ann Surg. 2008;247(1):19-20.
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Altpeter T, Luckhardt K, Lewis JN, Harken AH, Polk HC. Expanded surgical time out: a key to real-time data collection and quality improvement (90K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204(4):527-532.
Bernard AC, Davenport DL, Chang PK, Vaughan TB, Zwischenberger JB. Intraoperative Transfusion of 1 U to 2 U Packed Red Blood Cells is Associated with Increased 30-Day Mortality, Surgical-Site Infection, Pneumonia, and Sepsis in General Surgery Patients (440K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2009; 208(5):931-39.
Griffin FD. ACS closed-claims study reveals critical failures to communicate (165K PDF). Bull Am Coll Surg. 2007;92(1):11-16.
Greenberg CC, Regenbogen SE, Studdert DM, Lipsitz SR, Rogers SO, Zinner MJ, Gawande AA. Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients (125K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204(4):533-540.
Massarweh NN, Flum DR. Role of intraoperative cholangiography in avoiding bile-duct injury (890K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204(4):656-664. (Review of clinical data)
Kusminsky R. Complications of central-venous catheterization (260K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204(4),:681-696. (Review of clinical data)
Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton JB, et al. Operating-room briefings and wrong-site surgery (595K PDF). J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204(2):236-243.
Revised July 2, 2009
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