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Table 5 Estimated annual cases with errors

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

Case type

Case error Rate

Annual cases

total cases with errors

Inpatient

0.4273

15,950

6815

Outpatient

0.2232

11,046

2465

Total

 

26,996

9281

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BMC Surgery

ISSN: 1471-2482

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