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Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they preventable?

HYPOTHESIS Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events (WSPEs) are devastating, unacceptable, and often result in litigation, but their frequency and root causes are unknown. Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient events are likely more common than realized, with little evidence that current prevention practice is adequate. DESIGN Analysis of se...

Program Committees

Local Committees

An interesting conference of representatives of the voluntary hospitals in the West Biding, excluding Bradford, Leeds, and Sheffield, has been held at the Clayton Hospital, Wakefield, with reference to the appointment of two representatives upon the Local Hospital .Committee for the West Eiding in connection with the Voluntary Hospitals Commission. As the result of much criticism of the propose...

Program Committees

Program Committee David Abramson, Monash University, Australia Vassil Alexandrov, University of Reading, UK Mike Ashworth, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, UK Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide, Australia Ewa Deelman, ISI, USA David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Chung-Ta King, National Ts...

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