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Thinking in three's: changing surgical patient safety practices in the complex modern operating room.
Gibbs VC. World J Gastroenterol. 2012;18:6712-6719.

This commentary explores strategies to prevent surgical fires, wrong-site surgeries, and retained surgical objects, including checklists and time outs.
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