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Table 6 Estimated annual 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

Cases observed

Errors observed

Annual cases

Errors/year

Inpatient

110

88

15,950

12,760

Outpatient

448

144

11,046

3551

Total

558

232

26,996

16,311

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BMC Surgery

ISSN: 1471-2482

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