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Prevention of medical accidents caused by defective surgical instruments.
Yasuhara H, Fukatsu K, Komatsu T, Obayashi T, Saito Y, Uetera Y. Surgery. 2012;151:153-161.

Near misses or adverse events due to defective surgical equipment were rare, occurring in only 1 per 10,000 procedures in this Japanese study.
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