| Subject: | Wrong Site Surgery Tops List of 2009 Sentinel Events |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Tue, 4 May 2010 - 09:00 am |
| The Joint Commission (TJC) recently announced the top ten sentinel events in 2009. According to TJC, they received "968 reports of sentinel events that affected 971 patients. Patients died in more than half of these events..." Wrong site surgery topped the list of 2009 Sentinel Events. The Universal Protocol (UP) was developed for preventing wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong person surgeryTM. The Universal Protocol applies to all surgical and nonsurgical... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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