Perioperative leaders from Children’s Hospital Boston created an approach that included perioperative staff education, standardized count practices, formal reviews of every count discrepancy and reviews/revisions of count policies to prevent retained foreign objects.
The approach helped the hospital reduce incorrect counts and count discrepancies by 50 percent. In addition, perioperative leaders found the approach helped sustain the improvements over time.
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