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Sharing lessons learned to prevent incorrect surgery.

November 21, 2012

Neily J, Mills PD, Paull DE, et al. Am Surg. 2012;78(11):1276-1280.

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The Veterans Affairs (VA) system has published important studies on the incidence of wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient surgery. This study reports on the VA's effort to disseminate lessons from these events to prevent further such errors.

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