Table 1 |
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Serious reportable surgical events ("never-events"), as defined by the National Quality Forum (NQF consensus report, update 2006) |
| Surgical "never-events" |
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| 1. Surgery performed on the wrong body part. |
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| 2. Surgery performed on the wrong patient. |
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| 3. Wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient. |
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| 4. Unintended retention of a foreign object in a patient after surgery or other procedure. |
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| 5. Intraoperative or immediate postoperative death in an ASA class I patient. |
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Stahel et al. Patient Safety in Surgery 2009 3:14 doi:10.1186/1754-9493-3-14 |
