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Gossypiboma: tales of lost sponges and lessons learned.
McIntyre LK, Jurkovich GJ, Gunn MLD, Maier RV. Arch Surg. 2010;145:770-775.

This study describes successful efforts to reduce retained surgical sponges after implementing protocol changes to improve the system.
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