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[thras]

It turns out that you can reduce the number of surgical instruments left in patients by 33% by implementing checklists. Surgeons won't do it because it feels beneath them.

[bkudria → thras]

And it is. We have computers for this. Specifically, RFID chips, and readers.

Surgeons are very very expensive, so their time is too.

[andreyf → bkudria]

Surgeons are very very expensive, so their time is too.

Surgical instruments, on the other hand, are easy to replace ;)

[snprbob86 → bkudria]

You don't need to get that fancy. Just paint silhouettes of the instruments onto the counter. Same effect, simpler operation, bonus clutter reduction.

[eru → thras]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

[TJensen → thras]

So get the nurses to do it for them, which, I believe, is what the researchers who were looking at this had to do.

[imajes → thras]

what bothers me is why this isn't more like 90% (in other words, why you don't check all items in and out - anything else is pretty lame supply chain management)