ed on the OR schedule, the consent form and the H&P. Facilities often
have the site documented somewhere, but it's often not specific
enough or not carried throughout all of the forms.
Another example is marking the surgical site. We see surgeons mark
a site just for the sake
of marking a site. We
even have reports
where a surgeon
marked the eye when
the patient was sup-
posed to have abdom-
inal surgery!
Q
What is the
right way to
mark a site?
First, the doctor
should not only use
the patient as a refer-
ence, but also make
sure that the informa-
tion the patient is giv-
ing lines up with the
consent, schedule,
H&P and the sur-
geon's memory. As for
whether to write
"yes" or the surgeon's
initials, when the
Authority studied this
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