Studies have estimated the incidence of retained surgical items (RSIs) as one in 5,500 to one in 6,975 cases. In October 2013, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert on RSIs, and periodic reports in the media have raised the public’s awareness of this persistent problem.
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The CDC’s healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevalence survey estimated that 110,800…
In 2021, Patient Safety in Surgery published the article, “Incidence…