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Factors contributing to preventing operating room "never events": a machine learning analysis.
May 10, 2023
Arad D, Rosenfeld A, Magnezi R. Patient Saf Surg. 2023;17(1):6.
Surgical never events are rare but devastating for patients. Using machine learning, this study identified 24 contributing factors to two types of surgical never events - wrong site surgery and retained items. Communication, the number and type of staff present, and the type and length of surgery were identified contributing factors.
