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
Service Line
Cases with no error
Cases with an error
total cases
% with an error
PLA
27
20
47
42.55%
ORTH
36
24
60
40.00%
OPHTH
52
18
70
25.71%
GEN
54
16
22.86%
ENT
99
28
127
22.05%
URO
53
13
66
19.70%
GI
42
2
44
4.55%