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No exceptions
In an ideal world, as one reader put it, "every patient would be
marked by the same person the same way — no choices and no
exceptions."
Nearly three-fourths (71.3%) of the 564 surgical facility managers we
surveyed adhere to the Universal Protocol by writing either the surgeon's initials (55.1%) or YES (16.2%) large and legibly to identify the
surgical site.
But for a sizable portion of our respondents, site marking is a curious chance to freelance rather than being the standardized practice it
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