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Diagram showing the different categories of sentinel events and their respective percentages.
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They were classified into 4 main categories (Figure 1), namely "wrong eye" (5 cases, 41%), "wrong prescription" (3 cases, 25%), "wrong patient and surgery" (2 cases, 17%), and "retained surgical items" (2 cases, 17%).