Description
Taking Time Out to Avoid Wrong Site Surgery
Presented by: The Florida Professional Liability Self-Insurance Programs
Disclosure Statement: The Florida Professional Liability Self-Insurance Program has disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships. No one else in a position to control content has any financial relationships to disclose.
Requirements for Successful Completion: This CME activity consists of an educational component (slides, audio/online lecture) which is followed by an online post-test. Certificates are awarded upon successful completion (80% proficiency) of the post-test. In order to receive credit, participants must view the presentation in its entirety.
Release Date: 07/01/2021
Expiration Date: 12/31/2023
Target Audience: Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Residents, Physician Assistants, Nurses and Specialty Nurses.
Learning Objectives: As a result of the participation in this activity, participants should be able to:
1. Describe the Florida Board of Medicine definition of surgery/procedure and what constitutes wrong-site surgery.
2. Recite pertinent state and federal standards relative to wrong surgeries, associated medico-legal and potential practitioner implications as well as prevalence data.
3. Relate common risk factors of wrong site, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgery and apply nationally recognized practices and preventive strategies.
CME Advisory Committee Disclosure: Conflict of interest information for the CME Advisory Committee members can be found on the following website: https://cme.ufl.edu/disclosure/. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
Accreditation: The University of Florida College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit: The University of Florida College of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Approved for by the Florida Board of Nursing as satisfying, 1 CNE hour, licensure requirement. Course participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Contact: If you have any questions please feel free to contact SIPHELP at (352) 273-7006 or at SIPHELP@ad.ufl.edu.
Bibliographic Sources:
1. Doing the “Right” Things to Correct Wrong-Site Surgery; 2007 Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, Pennsylvania Patient Safety Recording System.
2. Why Wrong Site Surgery; Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare.
3. Samuel C. Seiden, MD; Paul Barach, ME< MPH: Wrong-Side/Wrong-Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Patient Adverse Advents-Are they preventable? ARCH SURG/VOL 141, SEP 2006, www.ARCHSURG.COM.
4. Madeline Ulrich, MD, MS; Sarah McClain, MHS: Coverage Decision Memorandum for a Surgical or Other Invasive Procedure Performed on the Wrong Patient. January 15, 2009. www.cms.gov
5. Wrong-Site Surgery: AAOS-American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons/American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
6. Summary Data of Sentinel Events Reviewed by The Joint Commission 1995-2012. www.jointcommission.org
7. The Universal Protocol, Speak Up. www.jointcomossion.org
8. Lawrence L. Faltz, MD, FACP; John N. Morley, MD, FACP; Ellen Flink, MBD; Peg DeHont Dameron, BSN
9. The New York Model: Root Cause Analysis Driving Patient Safety Initiative to Ensure Correct Surgical and Invasive Procedures
10. Suzanne C. Beyea, PhD, RN, FAAN, Distractions and Interruptions in the OR: Evidence for Practice. September 2007, Vol 86, No. 3 AORN Journal
11. Reducing the Risk of Wrong Site Surgery, Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare http://www.centerfortransforminghealthcare.org
12. Mary R Kwann, MD,MPH; David M. studdlers, LLB, ScD; Michael J. Zinner, MD; Atul A. Gawande, MD, MPH, Incidence, Patterns and Prevention of Wrong Site Surgery, ARCH Surg/Vol. 141, APR 2006.
13. Deborah F. Mulloy; Rhonda G. Hughes: Wrong-Site Surgery: A Preventable Medical Error. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2678/
14. Winta T. Mehtsun, MD, MPH; Andrew M. Ibrahim, MD; Marie Diener-West, PhD; Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD and Martin Makary, MD, MPH: Surgical never events in the United States. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/jsurg.2012.10.005.
15. Patient Safety Solutions, WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions, Volume 1, Solution 4, May 2007
16. Preventing Wrong Site Surgery, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, September/October 2010 www.psqh.com
17. Melody F. Dickerson, MSN, RN, Targeting: Wrong Site Surgery Risks, The OR Connection, Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare
18. Sandra Boodman, Effort to End Surgeries on Wrong Patient or Body Part Falters, http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2011/june/21/wrong-site-surgery-errors.aspx
19. Martin Makary, MD, MPH, Arnab Mukherjee, BA, J Bryan Sexton, PhD, Dora Syin, BS, Emmanuelle Goodrisk MPH, Emily Hartmann, MSS, Lisa Rowen, RN, DScN, Drew Behrens, Michael Marohn, DO, FACS, Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD., erating Room Briefings and Wrong Site Surgery, doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.10.018
20. Safe Practice 26: Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure, Wrong-Person Surgery Prevention, National Quality Forum
Objectives
Learning Objectives:
As a result of the participation in this activity, participants should be able to:
1. Describe the Florida Board of Medicine definition of surgery/procedure and what constitutes wrong-
site surgery.
2. Recite pertinent state and federal standards relative to wrong surgeries, associated medico-legal
and potential practitioner implications as well as prevalence data.
3. Relate common risk factors of wrong site, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgery and apply
nationally recognized practices and preventive strategies.
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate CME Certificate-Taking Time Out
Learning Credits
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