As much of 75 percent of an operating room may not be sufficiently cleaned or disinfected. For example, the three best-cleaned items in an operating room — main door, main field light and telephone — ...

Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to quality and risk management in medicine. Haynes et al., in a path-breaking study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009, ...

Although an operating room may look clean, studies have shown there’s room for improvement. For example, in an AORN Journal report, researchers found only 25 percent of OR surfaces targeted in a study ...