Quality Improvement Guidelines for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Errors: Application of the Joint Commission "Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery" to the Practice of Interventional Radiology

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1145-1151

  Angle, John F ^a   Nemcek Jr , Albert A ^b   Cohen, Alan M ^c   Miller, Donald L ^e   Grassi, Clement J ^f   D'Agostino, Horacio R ^h   Khan, Arshad Ahmed ⁱ   Kundu, Sanjoy ^j   Osnis, Robert B ^l   Rajan, Dheeraj K ^k   Schwartzberg, Marc S ^m   Swan, Timothy L ⁿ   Vedantham, Suresh ^o   Wallace, Michael J ^d   Cardella, John F ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g BAYSTATE HEALTH   (United States)

^h Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

ⁱ Washington Hospital   (United States)

^j SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^l RADIA   (United States)

^m Radiology Associates of Central Florida   (United States)

ⁿ MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^o WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL EVENT; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL RISK; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47549084298     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.03.027     Document Type: Article

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