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Hospital’s Universal Protocol form keeps it simple
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 29, 2007
To standardize and simplify its Universal Protocol form, Blount Memorial Hospital formed a team to improve its checklist to avoid wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-person surgery.
The committee's membership ran the gamut. It included radiology, cardiology, the cardiac lab, nursing, and quality management.
"What I tried to do is bring in the departments that Universal Protocol would affect," says Susan Wood, RN, patient safety officer at the 314-bed Maryville, TN, hospital.
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