According to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority’s most recent data for 2010, wrong-site anesthesia blocks are the most common wrong-site events, followed by wrong vertebral level and wrong-site ...

At the Becker’s ASC 21st Annual Meeting — The Business and Operations of ASCs, Oct. 23 to 25, in Chicago, Sandra Jones, MBA, CASC, LHRM, FHFMA, senior vice president and COO of ASD Management, ...

Since the Joint Commission rolled out its universal protocol in 2004 to prevent wrong-site surgeries in the operating room, it has estimated that wrong-site surgeries occur 40 times a week in U.S.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Wrong site surgery is a leading cause of medical errors in dermatology. Photographs, dermoscopy, patient ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Rhode Island's largest hospital was fined $150,000 and ordered to take the extraordinary step of installing video cameras in all its operating rooms after it had its fifth ...