• Spell it out in big
red letters. Staff at
Regions Hospital in
St. Paul, Minn., cover
the instruments for
each case with a
time-out towel to
remind the OR team
to stop for a time-out
before making the
first incision. Hospital personnel designed the towels in response
to a wrong-site surgery at the facility.
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