Interventions for reducing wrong-site surgery and invasive procedures.
Algie CM, Mahar RK, Wasiak J, et al. Interventions for reducing wrong-site surgery and invasive clinical procedures. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;3)(3):CD009404. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009404.pub3.
Wrong-site surgery is considered a never event, and therefore hospitals have been required to implement protocols to prevent these errors. This systematic review did not identify any high-quality studies of successful methods to prevent wrong-site, wrong-patient, or wrong-procedure errors.