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And for errors related to surgical procedures, the center developed the Safe Surgery Process, with each step designed to cognitively engage the surgical team at critical points, to ensure that patients receive the correct surgical procedure -- a very low-cost way of reducing the extremely costly errors that can result from wrong-site surgery.

Thomas Fisher: Cutting Health Care Costs Through Design Thomas Fisher 2011

But in hospitals there is no such fail-safe system, one reason that tens of thousands of American patients annually are harmed or killed by preventable infections, wrong-site surgeries and medication mishaps.

Building Team Spirit Laura Landro 2010

Some surgeons still won't follow the now routine practice of "signing the site" to prevent wrong-site surgery.

Patrick Malone: Where Are the Firing Offenses in Medicine? 2009

RX for wrong-site surgery -- 2 minutes of conversation

January 23rd, 2007 2007

ALEX DIPRATO, WPRI CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that is the amount Rhode Island Hospital is ordered to pay up after its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009 2009

It's estimated there's 40 wrong-site surgeries every single week.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009 2009

That helps explain why an estimated 4,000 wrong-site surgeries still are performed every year in the United States, more than a decade after the "sign your site" campaign by orthopedic and other surgical specialties.

Patrick Malone: Where Are the Firing Offenses in Medicine? 2009

The facility has been just fined $150,000 for its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009 2009

More horrifying, though more rare, are the administrative mistakes: The National Center for Patient Safety reports that 36 percent of mistaken surgeries were performed on the incorrect patient, and up to 2,700 wrong-site surgeries — where doctors bypass the wrong artery or operate on the left ear instead of the right — are performed in America each year, according to the Archives of Surgery.

Patient Protection 2008

A communications system that permits ambiguous or unclear messages to occur can lead to air crashes and wrong-site surgeries.

Safety as a social effect Daniel Little 2008