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Surgical instrument availability
Author(s) -
Prephan LuAnn
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60467-5
Subject(s) - surgical instrument , perioperative nursing , perioperative , quality (philosophy) , surgical procedures , operations management , medicine , medical emergency , process management , medical physics , computer science , business , engineering , surgery , philosophy , epistemology
• SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AVAILABILITY often is at the top of the list for perioperative quality improvement projects. • ENSURING AVAILABILITY of surgical instruments can be a daily struggle. At one facility, searching for items shortly before a procedure was a common occurrence. • THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES a three‐year quality improvement project undertaken to improve instrument availability throughout surgical services. The article also includes future plans and lessons learned. AORN J 81 (May 2005) 1017–1022.