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National Patient Safety Guidelines

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Universal protocol is a process designed by the Joint Commission to prevent wrong site surgeries. In August 1998, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert examining the problem of wrong site surgery, including a review of 15 cases that had been reported to them.

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  1. Department of Surgery, The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Medical Center, 1425 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA, 94596, USA

    William Greif MD & Pascal Fuchshuber MD, PhD, FACS (Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery)

  2. University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Pascal Fuchshuber MD, PhD, FACS (Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery)

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    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Greif, W., Fuchshuber, P. (2012). National Patient Safety Guidelines. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_14

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