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A 4 page discussion of the importance of standards released by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in 2003 in addressing wrong site surgeries. These measures have three important components: 1. preoperative verification, 2. marking, and 3. patient involvement in the marking process. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Unfortunately wrong site surgeries are not just a subject of science fiction. Interestingly, physicians seem to have a variety of ills on which
to blame such practices. President of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA), Dr. Jeff Collins, cites the tort system that is in place to penalize physicians for errors, lack
of resources and time, health care system complexity, and too rigidly defined clinical boundaries as being associated with medical errors (Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week, 2004). While it is
difficult to understand how the tort system (that system that provides patients that have been wronged with the opportunity to sue for malpractice) could be associated with increased medical errors,
a lack of resources and time as well as the complexity of the system and the interdepartmental problems in communication that exists in many health care environments are an obvious
concern. The lack of standardized preoperative procedures, however, are likely even more specifically to blame. Fortunately, new standards released by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
(JCAHO) in 2003 should go a long way in addressing these problems. Interestingly, hospitals are not required to report mistakes that
have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). Consequently, there is no way to get a realistic handle on the number of mistakes that
occur nationwide in any one year (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). It seems that only when a patient sues and the mistake is so radical that it captures the attention
of the media that there is any acknowledgment that this problem exists and little attempt to analyze the cause. Unfortunately,
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