Thinking in three's: changing surgical patient safety practices in the complex modern operating room.

Verna C. Gibbs

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Thinking in three's: changing surgical patient safety practices in the complex modern operating room.

January 16, 2013

Gibbs VC. World J Gastroenterol. 2012;18(46):6712-9.

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This commentary explores strategies to prevent surgical fires, wrong-site surgeries, and retained surgical objects, including checklists and time outs.

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