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Article: JCAHO sentinel event alert: wrong site surgery preventable.(Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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According to a sentinel event alert issued Dec 5, 2001, by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), performing a procedure on the wrong site or the wrong patient or performing the wrong procedure on a patient is completely preventable and should never happen. In a sentinel event alert to approximately 18,000 health care facilities nationwide, JCAHO called on the health care community to take specific safety steps and enlist the help of patients to eliminate these tragic mistakes, according to a news release from the organization.
To help avoid surgical errors, JCAHO encourages patients to have their surgical site marked with a ...