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Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

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Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > March, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 3

Hospital OR Monitor

Edited by Sharyn Davis, RN

Sharyn Davis, RN Accreditation Tips
Preparing for JCAHO's Tracer Survey
In a tracer survey, JCAHO surveyors trace the path of patients from pre-op to post-op, visiting each area a patient touches until they've audited a patient's entire surgical stay. Surveyors test staff they encounter along the way about facility policies and agency standards. How do you prepare for such a start-to-finish survey?

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