Spine surgery most common wrong-site surgery in Massachusetts
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, August 14, 2008
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Although healthcare organizations continue to add safeguards to the credentialing and privileging process to ensure quality patient care, mistakes in the operating room—including wrong-site surgery—still occur. For example, in Massachusetts, surgeons performed 38 wrong-site surgeries since 2006, according to a July 30 Boston Globe article.
Eleven of those surgeries were spine surgeries, including operations on the wrong vertebrae, and eight of them were orthopedic surgeries, including operations on knees and fingers. Other surgeries included catheter or stent placement, urology, biopsies, eye surgery, neurology, OB/GYN, and vascular surgery.
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