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Healthcare Risk Management
March 1, 1999

Surgeons urged to sign patients to avoid surgery on the wrong site

March 1, 1999

Issue Date: March 1, 1999

Table of Contents

Surgeons urged to sign patients to avoid surgery on the wrong site
Confirm correct site, then apply your John Hancock
Facility finds creative alternatives to restraints
Restraints can be dropped without increased injuries
JCAHO hails reduction in mealtime violence
Removing silverware dulls much of mealtime’s risk
Personal harassment creates liability
Assess your facility’s risk of personal harassment
FDA warning: Computer glitches may happen now
Unattended, medicated patient falls, breaks hip: $835,335
Psychiatric patient wins $2.175 million rape verdict
Psychotic patient jumps from window: $338,331

Financial Disclosure: None of the authors or planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients

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