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Table 3 Frequency of circulating nurses, scrub nurses, operating room nurses(including circulating nurses and scrub nurses)affected by sources of the first surgical counting interruptions

From: Surgical counting interruptions in operating rooms

Scource

CNs

SNs

ORNs

X2

P

People entering the OR

(%)

64

(19.0%)

19

(16.1%)

10

(4.1%)

81.012

0.000

Surgeons

(%)

21

(6.3%)

6

(5.1%)

5

(2.1%)

22.594

0.000

Anaesthetists

(%)

26

(7.7%)

5

(4.2%)

4

(1.6%)

39.686

0.000

Instruments

(%)

41

(12.2%)

24

(20.3%)

79

(32.5%)

49.563

0.000

Disinfection supply center

(%)

39

(11.6%)

21

(17.8%)

57

(23.5%)

24.923

0.000

Procedure

(%)

25

(7.4%)

30

(25.4%)

65

(26.7%)

31.200

0.000

Environment

(%)

76

(22.6%)

6

(5.1%)

5

(2.1%)

171.414

0.000

Electrophysiological monitoring staff

(%)

15

(4.5%)

2

(1.7%)

3

(1.2%)

23.550

0.000

Nurse themselves

(%)

29

(8.6%)

5

(4.2%)

15

(6.2%)

26.694

0.000

Overall

336

118

243

154.515

0.000

  1. CNs: circulating nurses, SNs: scrub nurses ORNs: including CNs and SNs