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
Errors observed/case
IP
OP
NR
total Cases
Percent of cases
0
63
348
4
415
73.84%
1
21
69
90
16.01%
2
15
36
6.41%
3
7
10
1.78%
5
0.89%
0.71%
6
0.36%
Total
110
448
562
100%