Tag: Safety

Surgeon leads effort for safer surgery

If you look behind some of the major studies on patient safety in surgery, you'll find a common name—Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. He led the well-known 2003 study documenting the incidence of retained items in surgery. He's just finished a clinical study of a bar code technology to aid sponge…

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By: Pat Patterson
May 1, 2007
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