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The Bar Coded Sponge Study

NCT00282750 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 350

Last updated 2010-01-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether bar coded surgical sponges can significantly increase the safety of operations, specifically by (1) reducing discrepancies and miscounts, (2) reducing total staff time spent on sponge counting, and (3) reducing disruptions to the operating room as a system. Also, the study aims to further characterize the limitations of the current surgical sponge counting protocol.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

DEVICE

Bar coded sponge and scanner

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Patient Safety Technologies, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Atul A Gawande, MD, MPH · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-03-31
Primary Completion
2006-08-31
Completion
2006-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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