Insight into preventing wrong-site surgery.

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Insight into preventing wrong-site surgery.

January 23, 2008

PA PSRS Patient Saf Advis 2007 Dec;4(4):109,112-23.

This article summarizes a state-level analysis that used site visits along with near miss and error reports to evaluate wrong-site surgeries.

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