Strategies to avoid wrong-site surgery during spinal procedures

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hsu, Wesley ^a   Kretzer, Ryan M ^b   Dorsi, Michael J ^b   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

"Time out" process; Complication; Medical malpractice; Spinal localization; Wrong site surgery

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; SPINE DISEASE;

HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MEDICAL ERRORS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 82155162820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.7.FOCUS1166     Document Type: Article

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