| Subject: | Review of Strategies to Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Wed, 6 Feb 2008 - 03:00 pm |
| Wrong-site surgery encompasses any procedure done on the wrong side of a patient's body, on the wrong part of a patient's body or on the wrong patient entirely. A 2006 report in the Archives of Surgery suggests that the problem of wrong-site surgery is more common that previously suspected. Couple this report with the newly updated (as of September 2007) sentinel event statistics from The Joint Commission (TJC), which lists wrong-site surgery as the most frequently... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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