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Side errors in neurosurgery.
Mitchell P, Nicholson CL, Jenkins A. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2006;148:1289-92.

The authors interviewed surgeons involved in wrong-site incidents and found that the errors of omission were primarily due to distractions in the operating environment.
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