The importance of side marking in preventing surgical site errors

International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 133-138

  Pikkel, Dvora ^a   Sharabi Nov, Adi ^b,c   Pikkel, Joseph ^b,d  

^a Risk Management and Patient Safety Unit Assuta Hospital   (Israel)

^b Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

side marking; time out; wrong side surgery; Wrong site surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; MEDICAL ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ADULT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908288256     PISSN: 09246479     EISSN: 18786847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JRS-140621     Document Type: Article

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