Addressing the important error of missing surgical items in an operated patient

Table 2 Occurrence and rate of MSI per surgical specialty

Surgical specialty	Surgeries	MSIs	Rate	p value
Open cardiac-surgery	3855	7	1.82‰	< 0.001*
General surgery	119,954	50	0.42‰
Gynecology	61,734	21	0.34‰
Ophthalmology	42,881	1	0.02‰
Orthopedic surgery	69,827	31	0.44‰
Otorhinolaryngology	69,621	19	0.27‰
Urology	43,390	5	0.12‰

Cardiac surgery is the specialty with the higher rate of MSIs, and Ophthalmology is the specialty with the lower rate of MSIs. The rate of occurrence is expressed per thousand of surgeries
MSIs Missed surgical items
^*Chi-square test, significant for differences in MSI occurrences between surgical specialties, p ≤ 0.05

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