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Experience of wrong site surgery and surgical marking practices among clinicians in the UK.
Giles SJ, Rhodes P, Clements G, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:363-368.

The investigators analyzed incidents of wrong-site surgery and surgical marking practices in the United Kingdom prior to the announcement of national guidelines.
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