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Hospitals collaborate to prevent wrong-site surgery.

June 27, 2018

Pelczarski KM, Braun PA, Young E. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. Sept/Oct 2010;7:20-22,25-26.

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This article describes a wrong-site surgery prevention program and how it was successfully implemented in 30 hospitals.

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