@article{6577,
  author = {John Starling and Brett M. Coldiron},
  title = {Outcome of 6 years of protocol use for preventing wrong site office surgery.},
  abstract = {<p><b>BACKGROUND: </b>Patient safety is emerging as an integral part of the overall strategy to improve health care in the United States. Wrong site surgery is correctly noted to be a sentinel event and great efforts must be made to avoid it.</p><p><b>OBJECTIVE: </b>We sought to determine the incidence of wrong site surgery after implementation of a preoperative protocol in patients presenting for treatment of skin cancer at a high-volume, Joint Commission-accredited, tertiary referral center for dermatologic surgery.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>A retrospective chart review was performed of 7983 cases performed on patients presenting for treatment of skin cancer in the office setting.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>There were no cases of wrong site surgery. There were, however, 18 cases of failure to identify the original biopsy site (cancer site).</p><p><b>LIMITATIONS: </b>This was a retrospective study done at one cancer center.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION: </b>Integration of a correct surgery site protocol into a daily patient care model is a useful step in preventing occurrences of wrong site dermatologic surgery.</p>},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {J Am Acad Dermatol},
  volume = {65},
  pages = {807-810},
  month = {10/2011},
  issn = {1097-6787},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jaad.2011.05.011},
  language = {eng},
}