Joint Commission tools to prevent wrong surgery.

Patient Safety in Spine Surgery: Regarding the Wrong-Site Surgery

Patient safety regarding wrong site surgery has been one of the priority issues in surgical fields including that of spine care. Since the wrong-side surgery in the DM foot patient was reported on a public mass media in 1996, the wrong-site surgery issue has attracted wide public interest as regarding patient safety. Despite the many wrong-site surgery prevention campaigns in spine care such as...

Use of an anatomic marking form as an alternative to the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery.

BACKGROUND The Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery was approved by the Joint Commission Board of Commissioners in July 2003 and became effective July 1, 2004. It requires the performance of a preprocedural verification process, marking of the procedure site, and performing a "time out" immediately before the start of a procedure. Compliance with t...

New Joint Commission center to take on wrong-site surgery.

Wrong-site craniotomy.

In this is issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery, Cohen and colleagues 1 report on a systematic review of the medical and legal literature as well as media reports relating to wrong-side craniotomies. Included with their description of 35 reported cases, they have provided analysis of possible contributing factors. Not surprisingly, the most common contributing factor was a breakdown in communic...

Top standards compliance data for first half of 2014.

The Joint Commission regularly aggregates standards compliance data to pinpoint areas that present the greatest challenges to accredited organizations and certified programs. These data help The Joint Commission recognize trends and tailor education around challenging standards; National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs); the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong P...