Preoperative site marking: are we adhering to good surgical practice? | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Preoperative site marking: are we adhering to good surgical practice? | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Study
 
• Published June 2017

Preoperative site marking: are we adhering to good surgical practice?

Bathla S, Chadwick M, Nevins EJ, Seward J. J Patient Saf. 2017 Jun 29; [Epub ahead of print].

Wrong-site surgery represents a never event. In the United States, The Joint Commissionrequires marking of the surgical site prior to surgery as part of the Universal Protocol. Researchers conducted a survey study of 120 surgeons in the United Kingdom and found significant variation in adherence to the national mandate for preoperative surgical site-marking.

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