The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has identified 29 causes of wrong-site surgery and offered “targeted” solutions for how to overcome these challenges. The causes and solutions ...

The Joint Commission, through its not-for-profit affiliate the Center for Transforming Healthcare, has announced it has identified three ASCs to participate in a pilot program focusing on wrong site ...

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 ...

Wrong-site and wrong-patient procedures persist at a high frequency, calling for the promotion of a zero-tolerance policy for preventable medical errors, according to a study published in the Oct.

Anesthesiologist error is to blame for an increasing number of wrong-site procedures, according to a report by General Surgery News. Data from Pennsylvania’s ...