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ArticleProceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)2023

Is surgery on the right track? The burden of wrong-site surgery.

Ahsan Zil-E-Ali, Lily Laubscher, Islam Kourampi, Christos Tsagkaris

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Article in Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ahsan Zil-E-AliDepartment of Heart and Vascular Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Lily LaubscherDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Islam KourampiDepartment of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8289-4869
Christos TsagkarisEuropean Student Think Tank, Public Health and Policy Working Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4250-574X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgery is a cornerstone of modern health care. Medical errors resulting from the clinical treatment of patients are a problem with global relevance. Among "never events," wrong-site surgery accounts for preventable mistakes with a big impact on patients as well as the economy. Wrong-site surgery has many contributing factors, whose identification is challenging. Nevertheless, it remains indisputable that wrong-site surgery affects patients' lives on many levels, ranging from physical disability to mental health. In addition, it aggravates the economic integrity of healthcare systems, healthcare workers' professional standards, and the public's trust in surgical services. Possible solutions for wrong-site surgery include perioperative protocols, surgical checklists, effective communication, education, continuous evaluation of existing procedures, and the implementation of new technology.

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Medical errornever eventssurgerywrong-site surgery

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PMID37614864
PMCPMC10443983

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