Never Events for Hospital Care in Canada: Safer Care for Patients.
Never Events for Hospital Care in Canada: Safer Care for Patients. Toronto, ON: Health Quality Ontario and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute; September 2015. ISBN: 9781460666180.
The never events list was developed to reduce harmful clinical incidents. This report reviews the results of a consensus effort to determine a list of never events for hospital care in Canada, including patient suicide, wrong-site surgery, and use of improperly sterilized instruments.