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NewsJoint Commission releases new method to prevent wrong-site surgery
The Joint Commission on Friday announced a Robust Process Improvement methodology to assess risk points and contributing factors of wrong-site, wrong-side, and wrong patient surgery as part of a Read more...
Preventing wrong-site surgery requires hospital, physician support
Wrong-site surgery occurs 40 times a week in U.S. hospitals and clinics, according to The Joint Commission, reports Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with The Washington Post, and those figures Read more...
Poor judgment, lack of time-out behind most wrong-site errors
Despite the legal liability hospitals face when the Universal Protocol isn't followed, wrong-site and wrong-patient procedures continue to harm patients, according to findings from a study published Read more...
Malpractice caps being challenged in Kansas
Is it constitutional to cap medical malpractice claims? If in deciding the case of Miller v. Johnson--a case in which a young woman had the wrong ovary removed during surgery--Kansas follows Read more...
Repeated wrong-site surgeries? Let's go to the videotape!
Within the past two years, Rhode Island Hospital has seen five cases of wrong-site surgery, a serious situation that has gotten the facility in deep water with the state's Department of Health. The Read more...
Another wrong-site surgery reported at Rhode Island Hospital
A wrong-site surgery that occurred at Rhode Island Hospital Oct. 22 is its fifth such botched case since 2007. Timothy Babineau, president of the Providence-based hospital, said an orthopedic surgeon Read more...
CA hospitals disclose more than 1000 medical harm cases
California hospitals have made their first official disclosures of never events occurring in their facilities, a step required under a state law enacted in 2006. The disclosures, which cover the Read more...
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