Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, October 2008, Timeouts need to include the entire surgical team
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, October 1, 2008
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Surgery centers that want to comply with The Joint Commission’s new Universal ProtocolTM expectations come January 2009 better make sure their surgeons mark the surgerical site and the entire surgical team stops what it’s doing to participate verbally and visually during the timeout.
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