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Table 1 Type of packaging errors during surgical instrument processing

From: Errors in packaging surgical instruments based on a surgical instrument tracking system: an observational study

Reasons

n

%

Package incomplete

70

17.6%

Instrument missing

77

19.4%

Instrument malfunction

27

6.8%

Instrument in wrong specification

175

44.0%

Wrong packaging tag

8

2.0%

Box and cover mismatched

14

3.5%

Wrong packaging material

15

3.8%

Indicator card missing

6

1.5%

Wrong count of instrument

6

1.5%