Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 527-535 , May 2009

Prevention of retained surgical sponges: A decision-analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness

  • Scott E. Regenbogen, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Scott E. Regenbogen, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, GRB-425, Boston, MA 02114.
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  • Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Stephen C. Resch, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA
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  • Anantha Kollengode, PhD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Office of Quality Management, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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  • Robert R. Cima, MD, MA, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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  • Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Atul A. Gawande, MD, MPH, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

,Accepted 28 January 2009.

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 S.E.R. was supported by Kirschstein National Research Service Award T32-HS000020 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Drs Greenberg and Gawande have received research grant support from SurgiCount Medical, Temecula, CA. The funding agencies were not involved in the conduct, analysis, or composition of this study, and were not given the opportunity to approve or edit the manuscript before submission.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00073-7

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.01.011

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 527-535 , May 2009

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