Preventable errors in the operating room: retained foreign bodies after surgery--part I.

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Preventable errors in the operating room: retained foreign bodies after surgery--part I.

July 25, 2007

Gibbs VC, Coakley FD, Reines D. Curr Probl Surg. 2007;44(5):281-337.

The authors discuss the history and evidence on errors involving retained foreign objects.

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