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Archive > December, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 12

Attack the Roots of Wrong-Site Surgery

Look at how you schedule patients and perform time outs to prevent this "never event" from happening.

Mark McGraw, Associate Editor

Schedule breakdowns and poor time outs open the door for wrong-site surgeries to sneak past surgical teams as often as 40 times per week. That's the finding of 8 hospitals and surgical centers that investigated the causes of wrong-site procedures as part of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. The leaders at some of the participating facilities share what they found.

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