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Despite a concerted effort to reduce them, surgical mistakes, particularly errors in communication, continue to occur in the operating room and elsewhere in hospitals, a Veterans Health Administration study found.
A total of 342 events were reported to a national database between January 2001 and June 2006, 212 of which were actual adverse events and 130 of which were close calls, according to Julia Neily, RN, of the Department of Veterans Affairs in White River Junction, Vt.
A total of 108 (50.9%) of the adverse events occurred in the operating room and 104 (49.1%) occurred in other locations such as procedure rooms and radiology suites, the researchers reported in the November Archives of Surgery.
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