Patient safety and retained surgical items

By Chantel Josiak ( February 27, 2020, 11:04 AM EST) -- In 2015, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute recognized 15 “never events” for hospital care in Canada, meaning that their rate of acceptable occurrence is zero. The criteria to determine a never event were that it met the standard of being serious, recurring, identifiable and avoidable. Retained surgical items and wrong surgical procedures are high on the list, numbers one and three....