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Table 1 Surgical instrument errors observed per case

From: Observed rates of surgical instrument errors point to visualization tasks as being a critically vulnerable point in sterile processing and a significant cause of lost chargeable OR minutes

Errors observed/case

IP

OP

NR

total Cases

Percent of cases

0

63

348

4

415

73.84%

1

21

69

0

90

16.01%

2

15

21

0

36

6.41%

3

7

3

0

10

1.78%

4

1

4

0

5

0.89%

5

2

2

0

4

0.71%

6

1

1

0

2

0.36%

Total

110

448

4

562

100%