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Never Events for Hospital Care in Canada: Safer Care for Patients.

September 30, 2015

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.

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